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Ok! Dump her ass!
LeeC:
me and my current girlfriend started kind of living with each other since the beginning of the relationship, partly because we live in the same apartment complex, and partly because at the beginning we were snowed in for over a week.
raoullefere:
As in, don't rush it? You've got me thinking of the late, great Robert B Parker's detective Spenser, who was in a monogamous relationship with the same woman for some thirty years, but they never moved in together (tried once, backed off) or married.
Carl-E:
My wife and I lived together for two years before getting married. We'd been good friends for about 3 years before that, and what started out as rent sharing evolved into genuine love. We've been together now for 26 years, and yes, there have been stupid fights. But we know each other well, and love each other enough, to forgive and work hard to get through the occasional bullshit.
Course, the last kid's off to college next year... we'll see if we can survive that change!
Binary:
Just to give you a target to aim for - my parents will be celebrating their 63rd wedding anniversary this month.
Graphite:
--- Quote from: DoubleJ on 01 Sep 2010, 14:13 ---If I'm remembering right, the results fall under the heading of "Doesn't Help; Makes It Worse" -- basically people see moving in together as a safety valve, but then feel too wrapped up into it and decide that after living together for a while they're supposed to get married, with the net result being that people who would have broken up if they weren't living together end up getting married when they shouldn't and contribute to the divorce rate when they can't take it any more.
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Ah, but there's also an alternate way to interpret the results - people who move in together are more likely to have progressive social attitudes, or at least progressive enough not to believe moving in together before marriage is a SIN OF HELLFIRE. That means they probably also don't believe that divorce should almost never be an option, and might therefore be more inclined to break up/get divorced if the relationship becomes intolerable, rather than sticking it out for reasons of "til death do us part", "marriage is always forever so you'd better bloody well stick with it" reasons.
This is coming from a person who was once told by a religious education teacher, with regard to her grandparents' marriage, "... well, God never said you needed to be happy!"
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