Living together before marriage is "normal" for secularists

[Riley259]

The Boston Globe has daily section in the newspaper called “SideKick” and one piece of this section solicits opinions from readers about a “question of the day”. In yesterday’s paper the question posed by an individual was whether she should live with her boyfriend first before considering marriage. There were 9 responses to this question and they unanimously agreed that it was perfectly ok to do so. Many of the respondents appeared to be fairly young themselves which may explain their misguided answer. The statistics are clear - living before marriage results in more divorce for the couple. I wish someone would tell that to the readers of the Globe.

 

[WanderAimlessly]

Riley259:

The Boston Globe has daily section in the newspaper called “SideKick” and one piece of this section solicits opinions from readers about a “question of the day”. In yesterday’s paper the question posed by an individual was whether she should live with her boyfriend first before considering marriage. There were 9 responses to this question and they unanimously agreed that it was perfectly ok to do so. Many of the respondents appeared to be fairly young themselves which may explain their misguided answer. The statistics are clear - living before marriage results in more divorce for the couple. I wish someone would tell that to the readers of the Globe.

Just like its reader, the Globe is not interested in facts. That would interfere with the agenda of the Secular Relativists of which the MSM (including the Globe) is trying to force on the world.

PF

 

[Micki]

Listening to some young folks talk at work among other places, I’ve noticed a slight change in this cohabitation trend. Some of these folks are moving in together not as a step before marriage. They just want to live together. Either one can’t do it on their own and neither one wants to move in with a friend so just move in with your significant other. When asked about marriage, it’s not on the radar screen.
Micki

 

[BlindSheep]

Riley259:

The statistics are clear - living before marriage results in more divorce for the couple. .

LOL! Yes, dead people don’t get divorced much!

 

[Rand_Al_Thor]

Peace be with you!

Plus, if you live together before you’re married, what changes when you do get married? “Oh, we’re married now…and now we have rings on. But everything else is the same.”

In Christ,
Rand

 

[zootjeff]

Rand Al'Thor:

Peace be with you!

Plus, if you live together before you’re married, what changes when you do get married? “Oh, we’re married now…and now we have rings on. But everything else is the same.”

In Christ,
Rand

What changes is the way you file taxes, the pictures in your house, the way super religious people treat you when you say you live together, your visitation rights in hospitals, the way you refer to your sig. other, all the stuff you get rid of because you got all the gifts, the way single people treat you when you go to a social gathering.

That’s what changes among other stuff if you already live together before marriage. No big deal. Many married people move in a few years anyway. A wedding is a big enough pain to plan without having to plan a new house at the same time.

I had a friend who decided to elope because his parents didn’t want him “moving in” before marriage. So rather than “moving in” after knowing her for 5 months knowing that he wanted to get married to her, he aloped and moved in anyway.

This kind of pressure from the family could just as easily be the cause of divorces as people “moving in without marriage” is.

If they moved in and decided that they can’t live together before they got married, which is the bigger sin, moving in and realizing you made a mistake and moving out? or getting married, moving in, then seeing you made a mistake, then getting a divorce, and moving out?

If you really want to live together, people know about the elope card, and it just hurts the sanctity of marriage that much more…

-Jeff