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• Cohabitation...Everybody's Doing It

  There is so much social pressure today to cohabit.

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• First Comes Living Together, Then Comes Marriage?

  While many well meaning people think that it would make logical sense that living together would give couples the chance to practice the skills needed for a lifelong, healthy marriage and increase the likelihood of choosing the right mate, the research shows that the opposite is true.

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• First comes love, then comes...cohabitation?

  First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes junior in a baby carriage. This familiar ditty describes a sequence of events that is increasingly rare. For many adults today, first comes love, then comes living together, and for the majority, a heartbreaking split that all too often involves children.

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• The College Scene: Hooking Up and Hanging Out

  A recently released report found that lots of women are signing up for Husband 101 in college, but aren't showing up for class. The study found that eighty-three percent of college women agreed that "Being married is a very important goal for me," and sixty-three percent agreed that "I would like to meet my future husband in college."

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• The Truth about Living Together

  Recently, college students were asked to talk about their aspirations concerning marriage and family. Most of the students said they planned to marry, but they wanted to be certain they were marrying the right person. During the discussion they were asked to talk about the best ways to prepare for a healthy marriage that will endure over a lifetime. The overwhelming majority of the class believed that living with someone before marrying him/her is the best way to know if you can make it in a marriage relationship. They were quite shocked to learn that living with someone rarely leads to lifelong marriage.

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• Living Together

  What do you get when you put an older, conservative, religious male researcher and a younger, liberal, feminist researcher together to present the latest findings on cohabitation? You probably assume you are in for a heated debate. Surprisingly, it was quite the opposite.

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• Living Together – Part Two

  Drs. Scott Stanley and Galena Rhoades are part of a team of researchers who have spent the better part of the last two decades looking at what makes marriage relationships work. A specific area of interest is cohabitation and its effect on marriage. Last week’s column began examining the latest research on living together. This week we will explore the differences in the way men and women view cohabitation.

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