cohabitation

Cohabitation is involvement. Marriage is commitment. According to demographer Casey Copen, “Generations that were cohabitating less are now being replaced by a group of women and men that find cohabitation to be quite normal”. Cohabitation has become increasingly common. In fact, more couples are living together before marriage. According to the report, “First Premarital Cohabitation in the United States”, by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Centers for Health Statistics, between 2006 and 2010, 48% of women between ages of 15 and 44 moved in for the first time with a man to whom they weren’t married. There are reasons on why couples choose to live together before getting married: to get to know each other, and to distinguish their financial compatibility. First of all, couples need to know each other, on how one another reacts from morning, during the middle of the day, and at night. Living together before marriage is getting to know a person that you might marry with. This is an important matter because moving together is an enormous commitment. It is essential for a person to know almost everything about their partner. However, knowing a person cannot be done without living together for a while before getting married. Therefore, living together for a while is important before deciding whether to get married or not. In order to be comfortable, a couple should get to know each other’s first. For instance, my mother and her boyfriend have been living together for about five years. As of now, I know that they had figure out each other’s attitude and personality. For one thing, my mother is a very moody person, and always nagging about small things. On the contrary, her boyfriend is calm and open-minded. However, there are times when they are having misunderstandings and arguments. For them to resolve their problems, whenever my mother is in a bad mood, her boyfriend will buy something that she likes or will take her out