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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just curious as it came up in conversation the other day. My rather liberal mother is staunch on one rule in life - never live with someone until you are married. Her reasonings are that classic "Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?" idiom and that it just makes things 10x more difficult if things go south.

I understand those points of views but think it's a good idea to live with each other before marriage because understanding whether you can live well together is a BIG part of having a successful marriage. I would perhaps open up her rule to "never live with someone until you're engaged (or soon to be engaged)." Or I would say that living together (in a rental situation) before marriage is fine, but you shouldn't buy property together yet.

What are your opinions? [/quote]

I think living together without getting married for a woman is the worst of both worlds.  You get all the duties of married life without its perks. And you get all the annoyances of single life without its joys.

Whether you can live together depends very much on your commitment, more so than on actual compatibility.  [/quote]

Hmm, this was not my experience.  What "duties of married life?"  My then-boyfriend-now-DH and I had a nice 2 bed condo.  We had high income, no kids, and all the time in the world.  Holy cow, it was so much better than married life now slaving away with the rug rats![/quote]

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