Marriages or live-ins?

I have always said when you buy a pair of shoes you don't wear them for a week or so then return them because suddenly they're not what you want. I have also said If a person is good enough to live with surely they're good enough for a commitment in marriage. Well I don't know anymore. It seems like everything is a bowl of cherries until the wedding then it's all down hill from there. If you want to live together first my blessings, better to find out now than later. I truly believe that it's the first two years it takes to get to really know each other.

I would strongly prefer to marry someone before living together. I feel that some people think it is necessary to test the waters before that sail out on the ocean. What some people fail to realize is that no matter how long you're out on the water, a storm is definitely going to come. In other words, you will have conflict with your boyfriend, girlfriend, or spouse. You have to learn to love each other no matter what the other person has issues with. After a while of commitment you learn that those issues were small issues and it won't bother you at all. There is no such thing as the perfect marriage. Marriage is a lot of work, time and commitment. In the years ahead you will learn to really love your companion. It takes a well made up mind.

i think you should live together as a prelude to getting married as it is true you never know someone truely until you have lived with them. However, I do feel this should only be a prelude to marriage as this represents a perminent commitment to the relationship blessed be

I have to say from my own personal experience live-in has worked out pretty well. I have lived with my "hubby" for ten years now and not sure when we will legally be married. I think you should live with a person first because you get to know so much more about a person when you live with them.