Cohabitation Before Marriage

Coed cohabitation before marriage. This is a topic that many young people are currently facing. There are good things and bad things that may come from this living option. Through reading some biased websites, statistics indicate that cohabitation is basically signing your divorce papers with your significant other. The only issue that I have with these numbers, is the possibility that these numbers may mainly come from divorced individuals. This theory of mine, however, may be inaccurate. Who am I to judge the statistics? I am merely a college student just looking up stats with no degree as of yet to professionally or to effectively issue or analyze any such test. I only have an opinion that coed cohabitation before marriage, may be a good thing for couples. I have the hypothesis that by people living together before marriage, they learn what their other half is like behind closed doors, so to speak. You learn of any bad habits or good habits. Habits as simple as getting used to him not putting the toilet seat down, or she leaves toothpaste in the sink. But there are other habits that are very important to discover before marriage. I have heard from women in abusive relationships, that when dating their boyfriend was perfect and her dream man, however, once married and living together, he was a monster and abusive. In defense, there may have been red flags in the beginning of any of these relationships for abuse.
So what am I getting to? It may seem strange that I continue to defend both sides of the arguments: Cohabitation before marriage is negative and cohabitation before marriage is negative. The point that I’m trying to make is simply that cohabitation before marriage may work for some people and it may not be suitable for others. I agree that young people can move in together too soon and that have negative ramifications on the future of a couple. I feel in my opinion that as two people approach a point in their relationship, to where they feel they are ready to move in together, that they should sit back and think seriously and objectively about the living arrangements in which they are about to embark on. Things considered should be: can I seriously handle being around this person all the time? Is this someone I plan on spending the rest of my life with? Is this someone that I want to move in with because it makes the booty calls more convenient? I agree that people whom aren’t serious about moving in together simply shouldn’t. I agree that given certain circumstances, coed cohabitation before marriage can be a good thing, but agree it can be a bad idea as well. Just think before you move!