It is known that one out of two marriages will end in divorce. According to Dr. Harley, in "Living together before Marriage", eighty-five percent of the divorced couples were cohabitating before marriage, otherwise known as: living together. With these kinds of statistics, why would people want to live together before they get married? It's a perfectly logical question, with a perfectly logical explanation. Couples naturally want to know each other before they take the big …showed first 75 words of 800 total…

…showed last 75 words of 800 total…together and has a sense of oneness. These precautions may be useful, but there's nothing that can substitute for the real thing. Marriage alters the mind, and what once was fake now is real. Marriage is a life-long commitment and should to be treated with a great deal of respect. Cohabitating before marriage is proven to be extremely risky. Avoiding cohabitation may not only save a marriage, but may also increase your marriages overall lifestyle.