Not to live together before marriage....

Considering half of the people would actually do get married will divorce, what is the rate of people living together that break up, probably even higher. I lived with a guy for 4 years and we broke up which was great. I was too young to get married and it would have led into a divorce. I don't believe in divorce more than not living with someone before marriage.

Our indian culture does not allow to live together before marriage. But in metro cities, few percent of girls/boys are living together even they are not married. Due to crowd in city, nobody has time to watch who is doing what. Each person is busy in himself/herself from morning till evening. We are adopting western culture so many guys do not take such relationship otherwise. In western countries this is very common. After crossing maturity age, girls and boys are free legally and they can live as per their choice. As the parents have lived in same style, they do not prohibit the children in doing so. I do not believe in such relationship. Friendship is different thing and we should have.

I lived with my husband for five years before we got married, and it was largely my insistence that made it so! I just wasn't into the whole marriage thing initially, because every marriage I had seen (among my family and such) had been either severely abusive or short-lived. It finally took my husband convincing me that our own marriage would be something of our making and not related to anything else marriage was or had been for anyone else to get me to marry him! I don't really think there's anything wrong with either getting married or not getting married. There are a lot of important legal protections with marriage, and there are of course social and religious reasons for which people prefer it. But each individual and each relationship is different, and I think the people involved should have the ultimate say in what makes them happy. These days I am very happy with my own marriage, but I don't really feel any differently about the relationship than before it had that title.

I agree completely with you. Atleast as far as indian culture is related this is not right. However the live in culture is widely growing even in India and I know a lot of such people. Well it depends from person to person. But i dont think they resist their desires and lust. Its not possible unless they r too strong in selfcontrol.

You are wrong.I know many girls who are living under the same roof with their partners without marriage. I have also no objection if my girlfriend wants to cohabit with me and this does not imply that i dont love her sincerely. Its true that marriage is also important to give this relationship its due respect but am not either saying that those living together without marriage are sharing an unrespectful relationship.

I believe it's in everyone's best interest if the two partners live together before actually getting married. Some people just aren't compatible together when it comes to living in the same house, and it's best that two people live together for awhile to make sure that they're completely okay before pledging themselves to one another for the rest of their lives. Marriage and divorce are both complicated legal processes, if it can be avoided to have extra of either one or the other, it's probably for the best. Besides, what exactly IS wrong with living with another partner before you decide to get married? I, personally, plan on living with a guy I'm not even getting married to or dating when I move out of high school while we attend college. Doesn't make me less of a person, or at least I like to think so.

I do not think any Hindu girl or boy would prefer to have premarital relationship nor they will be interested in staying together rather than marrying. One of the most successful institution of Hinduism is Marriage where the husband and wife live together for decades despite any minor squirmishes if any. I love the family system of hindus which has a strong bondage.

I don't believe in living together before marriage too. In fact my religion prohibits a man and a woman from living together before marriage. If they produce kids while living together, the child would be considered an illegitimate child. I would not want to have one, for sure.