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It is his preconceived notion that is more in question than his facts, although they may or may not be accurate as most of his facts stem from biased sources.
We "shacked up" for 7 years before we were "Officially" married. We acted married for 5 or 6 of those 7, and decided to have kids, and went and got some paperwork signed.
23 years together (16 official) next spring.
Now that you are wearing that scarlet letter you should seek your place with the lepers and be shunned.
Go away, only perfect people allowed!
DON'T GET MARRIED.
cut/past - to read entire article
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2008-07-28-cohabitation-research_N…
Twenty or 25 years ago, if you were cohabiting and then married them, the marriage was more likely to dissolve and end in divorce," he says. "Today, that's not the case. You can cohabit with your spouse and not experience increased risk of divorce. We're making these finer distinctions that we didn't make before."
Teachman's analysis of federal data on 6,577 women whose first marriages occurred between 1970 and 1995 found that a woman who has lived only with her future spouse has no greater risk of divorce. But for women who lived with someone else in addition to the eventual husband, there is a greater risk of divorce, found the study, published in 2003.
Those aren't the only studies reflecting changes — researchers across the country, including at the University of Wisconsin, the University of Minnesota, Pennsylvania State University, Cornell University and others, are studying cohabiting couples. Among other recent findings:
• The odds of divorce among women who married their only cohabiting partner were 28% lower than among women who never cohabited before marriage, according to sociologist Daniel Lichter of Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y.
• Divorce rates for those who cohabit more than once are more than twice as high as for women who cohabited only with their eventual husbands, says Lichter's study, to be published in the Journal of Marriage and Family in December.
• Cohabiting between a first and second marriage doesn't raise the risk of divorce — unless the woman brings a child into the marriage from a previous relationship. A man with a child from a previous relationship does not raise the likelihood of a second divorce, finds a study in the May Journal of Marriage and Family, in which Teachman analyzed findings on 655 women from the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth.
Other recent studies have shown that certain subgroups don't appear to experience negative effects from cohabiting, such as engaged couples who move in together or those who have already decided to marry in the future.
Some new research goes further, suggesting that living together may reduce risk of divorce.
"We showed women who only cohabited with their husband had lower rates of divorce than women who didn't cohabit and went straight to marriage," Lichter says. "There seems to be less risk than if you cohabit many times or if you don't cohabit at all." An academic paper on that lower divorce risk for cohabiters is forthcoming, he says.
His research on serial cohabitation analyzed data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth and found that women living with even one more man in a romantic relationship other than the eventual spouse increased divorce risk.
Sociologist Kelly Musick, also from Cornell, says the focus on cohabitation research is shifting.
"The emphasis in the cohabitation literature for a very long time was on trying to understand why couples who cohabit before marriage split up at higher rates than those who don't," she says. "More recent studies have tried to understand more about what it means and look at it more as a family form in its own right."
I wonder who knows more about this subject, a Sociologist from Cornell or a roofer from Ohio?
Pit Row
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_/ai_21161643
It's hard to believe, but apparently true.
The rest of olger's post is crap though.
Boy was that a mistake - After marrying her, she turned into a total B*TCH, and I stayed married to her for 13 years (which was another mistake), and went through a 'war of the roses' style of divorce that still haunts me 9 years later.
I've been in several relationships since then, but I kind of doubt I'll ever go down that road again, without test driving first.
Sorry Ol'ger , but my personal experience tells me otherwise.
Opposition to cohabitation comes mainly from religious groups. Opponents of cohabitation usually argue that living together in this fashion is less stable and hence harmful. According to one argument, the total and unconditional commitment of marriage strengthens a couple's bond and makes the partners feel more secure, more relaxed, and happier than those that have chosen to cohabitation.[1] Opponents of cohabitation commonly cite statistics that indicate that couples who have lived together before marriage are more likely to divorce, and that unhappiness, ill health, poverty, and domestic violence are more common in unmarried couples than in married ones.[2] Cohabitation advocates, in turn, cite research that either disproves these claims or indicates that the statistical differences are due to other factors than the fact of cohabitation itself.
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