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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Don’t ask how this question came up, but some friends and I were talking about books and movies and TV shows from the 80s and early 90s and we noted how couples never moved in together until they were married. At least from the references we could remember.

While some individual couples might be against the idea of cohabitation to this day, the idea that unmarried couples cohabitate has been pretty mainstream at least throughout my adult life. Was this not the case 30+ years ago? [b]Did couples, or heck, even roommates, face any kind of issues buying a house or renting together if they weren’t married?[/quote][/b]

I take it you never had the joy of watching Three's Company. [/quote]

Ha!! My first thought was to explain Three's Company. Hey kid, let me tell you a story ... in the 70s, it was not mainstream for unmarried people of opposite sex to live together. Improper!! So Jack pretended he was GAY so it would be OK with the landlord to share apartment with Janet and Chrissie.

When I watched the show in the 80s, my evangelical mom made sure to tell me it was wrong, but she was tired and didn't stop me from watching it.

I heard a lot about how "living in sin" was wrong, cows and milk for free and etc.

As a young adult woman in the early 2000s, I lived with two guy housemates and my parents thought it was pretty weird and had lots of questions.

My DH tells me he was pressured into marrying his first wife because they moved in together. Her Southern family, in about the year 2000, came down hard on it, and so he proposed. Then they were happy.

Much of it is cultural/regional/religious/patriarchal etc[/quote]

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