Should unmarried couples cohabit before marriage? (2)

In this article, the Verdict on Cohabitation vs. Marriage, Jeff claims that cohabitation is an important change. Today most marriages involve cohabitation before marriage. Most people agree that living together before marriage is a great way for couples to find out whether they get along. However, research proves that cohabitation doesn’t prevent from divorce but creates disadvantages for individuals, couples and children. Jeff provides four reasons to explain why cohabitation increases the chance of divorce, such as less commitment in cohabiting relationship. Jeff then gives eight reasons to convince readers why marriage is better than cohabitation. He also claims that married couples have better sex lives than cohabitators because marriage adds the essential part of commitment and security to one’s sex life. In conclusion, Jeff mentions that cohabiting couples will have more negatives if they live together keep doing so. Cohabitation can never promise a strong and committed marriage after all.

I totally agree the reasons why cohabitation increases the chance of divorce. The commitment in cohabitation is weak. There is no promise to protect each of the couple. If any one of the couple found unsatisfied with the relationship, it would be complicated to separate. In the relationship of cohabitation, one can easily be used to the few responsibilities. Once the relationship changes to a marriage, one cannot get used to the necessary bonds of couples. Then it may be easy for the one to ask for divorce because he or she is adapted to the weak responsibilities. Cohabitation also gives couples an idea that the relationship can be ended quickly if they were unsatisfied with each other. In this way, once a couple get an argument or discontent, both the man and woman are willing to try to maintain the relationship; what they want to do is break up because there is no commitment. As a result, cohabitation is not as perfect as people think. There are still many disadvantages that we seldom notice.