How many times have you heard that "Well, I think we should just live together first to see if we are compatible, and then we can get married." How many times have you saw the sight that the bride walked down the aisle who was already living together with her boyfriend. Nowadays, unmarried couples living together have increased dramatically over the past few decades. The rationale is simple: "By living together before marriage, we'll know …showed first 75 words of 1314 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1314 total…to our human relationships and leaves such deep scars for a lifetime. As a result, the available social science evidence suggests that living together is not a good way to prepare for marriage or to avoid divorce. No scholar that I know of, or anyone else for that matter, has been able to contest this with any counter evidence. There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.