Cohabitation or marriage,which will you choose?
By fangyansnake
@fangyansnake (116)
China
5 responses
@academic2 (7000)
• Uganda
25 Nov 07
I would always want cohibitation to lead to marriage
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@UnselfishShellfish (1306)
• United States
7 Dec 07
To the first poster: Living together without a license does not mean you are afraid to commit to someone. It means you don't need that useless piece of paper hanging around above your head like a storm cloud.
There is nothing wrong with living with someone without marraige. Marraige is an outdated institution meant to enslave and control women. Just take a look at how marraige got started: A man from a tribe would go to a neighboring tribe and steal one of the women. Then to keep her from running, he'd bind and tie her hands and feet together until she'd quit running. Then when she would no longer try to run, he'd put a piece of rope around her left ring finger just as a reminder that he owns her forever.
My relationship may not be a "real" marraige complete with groomsmen, a cake and a nice dress, but to us, it's as real as it's going to get.
There is nothing wrong with it. My relationship is not a test or a trial. It's my relationship with a man I love and just because we don't share a last name (I wouldn't change mine even if we did marry) or a wedding license, it doesn't mean I love him any less than if we did decide to get married.
I am always in favor of it before marraige. You spend a few hours a night with your partner and how well do you really know him? I didn't know my SO snored, thought the landry hamper was an oversized trash can or believed that his idea of folding laundry was leaving dry clothes on the stove for me to fold until we moved in.
I'm not going to leave him over those reasons, but it was nice to find out before hand. Who knows? If we got married, that laundry thing could have made us divorce.