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Status check: Live-in relationships
Oct 18, 2012, 12.00AM IST
Nona Walia, TNN
Tags: Test drive | taboo | pooja bhatt | Pooja Bedi | journey | Freida Pinto | dev patel | Brad Pitt | Angelina Jolie | Abhay Deol
They may have started off as a bold alternative to the institution of marriage, but live-ins these days are mostly a test drive for couples before they tie the knot. Nona Walia finds out why.
The poster-couple for live-in relationships, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, has triggered the 'wedding' debate, by flashing identical £500,000 diamond-encrusted wedding bands on their
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fingers recently. Rumours are rife that after seven years of togetherness and six kids, they have finally decided to walk down the aisle. Once known to be fierce advocators of livein relationships, the couple's U-turn has surprised many fans, especially the ones who believe live-in relationships are a form of permanent co-existence rather than a stopgap arrangement before marriage. Times may have changed, but marriage still seems to be the Holy Grail for couples, even for liberal ones like Jolie-Pitt.
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"Why just Brangelina? Even gay couples want to get married. I think it's because marriage is seen as the ultimate commitment. You literally vow to be together, usually before witnesses, presumably with divine benediction and hopefully for life," says Jhoomur Bose, author of Confessionally Yours. She lives in with her partner and has a daughter.
Director-producer Mahesh Bhatt's mother was in a live-in relationship with his father at a time when society had no tolerance for it. He says, "My mother even