Are you in favour of live-in relationships?

[Raaj4you]

Yes

No

Other

[ZXCwWRQWz]

I did it with my wife. We lived two years before marriage. I admittedly wanted to "test drive" things because I had two exes before her with whom I lived together, and dating went great, but things started to fall apart as we lived together. So I was afraid of repeating that experience.

But I do find a lot of wisdom in the theist mindset of abstinence before marriage nowadays as a married man. Perhaps if we all did that, the sources of the disagreements I had with my exes wouldn't have existed in the first place. Or if they did, we would have already been married anyway and forced to work them out with marriage counseling and the like.

As a bachelor, I don't think I tried my best to make my relationships with the women I lived with work. It was too easy to just kick them out of my home when things were going downhill.

[ZXCwWRQWz]

I voted on "other" as a result.

[ZXCwWRQWz]

A lot of people I think these days, and I was totally guilty of this mindset too in my 20s, want to find a relationship that magically works. We're tuned to "discover something good" rather than "build something good". And that was a maturity lesson I had to learn the hard way in my 20s. I wasn't ready for my wife now back then. It was only when I learned this lesson that I was truly ready to be married to her. But suppose I married her before I learned this lesson, and before even living together; I would have been forced to mature and learn through the duty I had to her.

[Raaj4you]

Thanks for sharing your experience!

[Lliam]

Yes, if you both have your own places to live and just live at one or the other's places. You know, keep some clothes and necessities there and go back to your place regularly, but don't share expenses, combine your furniture, or move in all your stuff.

But I highly discourage renting a place together unless you are married.

[Raaj4you]

Good advice! I am in favour of it.

[Lliam]

@Raaj4you. Thank you for the MHO.

[LostandFound__x]

For me cohabitation only comes after marriage.

[Raaj4you]

I think, live-in relationship is good for people who don't believe in marriage.

[Billlewis]

Very much so. I've been in relationships with a few women who had their boyfriends move in with them and in each case, he quickly established himself as the top ranked male in the household.

[DizzyDesii]

Shackin up? Nah not really. Maybe once engaged

[Anonymous]

So y’all just gonna keep seeing each other in the weekend?

[legalboxers]

try before you buy...

[Raaj4you]

Take a test drive before buying.

[Nikki1989]

Yes, they are the best kind.

[gothbxtch]

yes, if that is what the couple wants

[XXblack88]

I'm not sure