Unmarried Live: Singlehood And Cohabitation

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Chapters 9, 10, 13
Chapter Nine: Unmarried Live: Singlehood and Cohabitation
Cohabitation is on the rise plain and simple, in the textbook on page 331 figure (9.1) shows that. In 1960 it shows that about .6 million couples were living together that were not married, this is what cohabiting means. Then fast forward 60 years and that number has jumped a crazy amount. Now that number that was .6 million, has risen to a little over 7.4 million couples living together. This graph is going straight up and I don’t see it stopping anytime soon. I am going to be talking about all the reason people are resorting to cohabitation. It is a smart move
The world we live in today and always have lived in is based on money. Almost everyone has to work and make money to provide for him or her self, their family, or for other reasons. Cohabitation is getting popular because it is easier on couples financially. To give you a prime example, my sister goes to nursing school in Des Moines. She is currently about 2 hours away from family so she did have an apartment she was renting. Well her and this guy she has been dating for a while decide to get a small condo together because it would be cheaper for them and it would save gas money driving to see each other all the time. Although they do really like living together they made the move from a financial standpoint first. It just sometimes makes the most sense to save money and cohabitate. In the book it talks about three types of cohabitation. The three types the book talks about is trail marriages, precursor to marriage, and serial cohabitations. Taking a look at the first one, trial marriage is just how it sounds. The couple tries living together and doing the same stuff they would be doing if they were married. This is all about trying to figure out if the couple is suitable to marry each other. This can go on for a while or can be shorter but the whole point of trial marriages is to live with your boyfriend/girlfriend at the time and see if things could
I have been in a pretty serious relationship. I have been with my girlfriend for three years. When I am done with my four years of college. I plan to try to find a job, well my girlfriend plans to attend PA school. Well I plan to get a job where she is attending PA school so that we can share an apartment and I can help her out paying rent. After thinking about all the terms in this chapter and types of cohabitation, I think that I would classify my type of cohabitation as precursor marriage. If all works out and it is a ways away, We will probably be very close to becoming engaged and I will be wanting to live with her before we get married. So that's what type of cohabitation I think our cohabitation would be under. At the same time it will be an experiment to just how marriage could be, so it's like we could be killing two birds with one stone. From the readings it has helped me understand cohabitating a lot more and the benefits and consequences that can come with