Cohabitation before Marriage

Cohabitation before Marriage Why do young adults cohabitate? Today, teenage couples are planning their lives too soon. Many teens do not realize what could happen in their lives, higher debt, family disownment or shame, and even children. In order to develop solid relationships with a decrease in the likelihood of divorce, many young adults are choosing to cohabitate before marriage in today’s society. Once teenagers turn eighteen, all they can think about is freedom and how they think they are automatically adults. Many young adults choose to move out of their parents’ house once they have graduated because of the freedom. The word freedom sounds fun, adventure, and most of all no rules. As young adults, we choose to not see all of the responsibilities of being on our own. We let our feelings and emotions of being on our own blind all of the negative effects it has on our lives. Not only is it against our parents’ wishes, but it is also against our moral beliefs that our parents have taught us over the years. As young adults, we run to low paying jobs to try and find ways to pay for this lifestyle that we have chosen. We all know that working in these types of positions will only make it even more difficult to provide us with a way of life that we are accustomed too. We will be working to only have the money to pay our bills, and that will soon make this lifestyle not look so great anymore. Not having the ability to go out with friends or go to the mall and buy a new outfit only because we are struggling to make ends meet. This type of choice will be very difficult at first, but it is a part of life that each of us has to learn and grow from. Many of our parents and grandparents were brought up in an era when people did not live together before marriage. But as the world is changing more and more, people are living together before marriage instead of getting married then living together. There will be some people who will, unfortunately, be disowned by