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If one's intent in marrying is only personal gain and living together is purely to "check them out first", then the marriage will probably have problems. Relationahips work when the intent of the marriage is agape (sacrificial) love. When one puts the other before themselves (and they both do it for this reason), it is highly unlikely that anything will happen to break the union. In that event where is the problem with living each other prior to marriage?
Furthermore, in this day living together afore marriage no longer has a social stigma attached to it because it is now the norm, for the most part.
I hope and pray that other couples share the happiness my boyfriend and I possess together, a promising relationship, a home and a life filled with love. Everything else, is mere material.
The research has shown that couples who live together prior to marriage are three times more likely to divorce than couples who do not live together.
I saw this on CNN just a few years ago.
