Living Together First Can Spoil Marriage, Study Finds
Fox News: “The study, published in the February issue of the Journal of Family Psychology, indicates that such move-ins might not be wise. And it’s not because you start to get on one another’s nerves. Rather, the researchers figure the shared abode could lead to marriage for all the wrong reasons.”
LifeSiteNews: Study Confirms Cohabitation Leads To Higher Chance Of Divorce and Lower Relationship Quality
Abstract of the report and full text for purchase
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Its not just cohabitation, and its not just promiscuity. Its sexual activity outside of marriage, whether its one individual in a “so called” boyfriend girlfriend situation or promiscuity. This is where many are not pointing out the real root cause of the falicy. The sin is sexual activity outside of marriage its called fornication and the church needs to say that word far more than they do. Divorce happens so often in fornication type relationships that later marry. Because the women begins to realise the false pursuit that type of characteristics in a guy who doesnt practice abstinance until marriage is a bogus pursuit. Even though the women in the situation wont nescessarily connect his false pursuit with the sexual lack of integrity. Sometimes I think we make marriage sound as though – why bother cause its to hard. This is nonsense, marriage is a great gift and a great way of life but when it isnt pursued by the man and he is proding and probing for a girl to just relent to sexual antics without signing his name on the dotted line first says a lot about his motives- false ones at that. In Hebrews 13:4 it says fornicators and adulterers God will judge. Gods ways matter and when fornication takes place, it isnt Gods ways and you can expect the falicy to manifest itself soon enough. Women will overun with emotion and relent and men of these poor characteristics will play the game with these emotions for conveinance and the availibility of easy sex.
I see this scenario play out without fail and have for years. Men who dont practice abstinance until marriage arent about marriage even if they relent to marriage at a later date. When scripture says to honor marriage thats what it means. Consequences play out often to the womans suprise when she relents to such a characteristic in a guy. Fornication comes in many forms not just cohabitatin or promiscuity but can also be the suttle hey babe you know your my one and only.
When the marriage institution isnt honored regardless in what way or form, dont expect it to be a successful marriage.