Just As I Suspected...Don't Move In Together
I’m a true English major at heart, but back in college, I was convinced I should become a Marriage and Family Therapist. So during the fall of my junior year I tacked on a minor in psychology and dabbled in a few fun classes like Psychology of Marriage and Human Sexuality. One day you’ll have to remind me to tell you the story of my 70-year old sexuality professor who insisted on telling us Bible college kids about creative uses for KY-Jelly. I’m still traumatized.
Anyway, I digress. One of my favorite projects was researching the effect of cohabiting first (i.e. living together) on the success of a marriage. After countless hours spent in the library leafing through psych journals, articles, and various snippets of research found online, whether the evidence was Christian or secular, I found that the numbers didn’t lie: living together before marriage is a bad idea.
Apparently the NY Times discovered the same thing…Check out this article with their findings on how cohabiting can be detrimental to building a lasting relationship.
-CHANEL
