Living together before marriage
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definitely a good idea. you have to be able to gauge your guys' dynamic in a very intimate setting
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I don't yet live with my boyfriend but we are both aware we should whether we want to take it major steps, how we can we be sure that we are suited for each other if we mainly talk by phone, see each other 12/24 hours a week? That's far from enough, so yes, that will happen somewhere in the future. My parents didn't but it was 30 years before our time, nowadays is usual, at least here.
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Me and my husband/partner are together 14,5 years, we live together 14 years :hug: :hug: :hug:, last year we get marriage, or life partneship as is called in our country, we live in Croatia, in beautifull city Varazdin.
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Well that is a nice message to end the year
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I think everyone should live together for at least a year before getting married.
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Why wouldn't you live with your partner before marriage? That's a huge mistake to not do it.
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living together changes a lot of things… in both good way and bad way ,
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7 years before marriage
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nice
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It makes "marrige" just a papper
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I lived with partner for 6 years. Once it became legal for us to get married, we planned for one year and had our wedding. We have been a couple for 14 years.
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I lived with partner for 6 years. Once it became legal for us to get married, we planned for one year and had our wedding. We have been a couple for 14 years.
hope you have a wonderful wedding.
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different strokes for different folks..whatever suits the person, i am all for it..living in is ideal if both are okay with it
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I'm all for it! I don't think i could wait…
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I think it is a good idea to live together before marriage. It helps.
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Definetely necessary, in my opinion, to know your partner and to check the best (and the worst) things of living together.
I live with my partner and we are not married yet, and I can't feel happier than living together without getting married. I get to know him better and he gets to know me better, too. -
Is this a cultural thing in certain countries? I know a total of zero people who waited until marriage to move in together. People around here only get married after they've lived with their significant others for some time.
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In this day and age, I probably would never get married. 'Cause these days, I just think it's better to live separately (unless something catastrophic happens in you or your partners life that requires you to live together. Given our culture today, I just don't think it's all that easy to say.... "Yes, I want to spend the rest of my life with you." I'm not saying you shouldn't, but damn, we all need to be more careful (including myself).
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A very sensible timeline, Ricky, and that period saving up money together is also a good way for anyone to help evaluate his betrothed's commitment to the relationship and overall stability.
Here in NYC, many gay men in mid-career own their own apartments, but they are not always large enough to easily accommodate a partner. So, the courtships can go up to wedding day living separately.
And if both guys own single-occupancy flats of which they are fond, I know several who marry/commit and opt to keep both places. Each week is a mix of staying at apartment A, or B, or sometimes a night apart due to work demands, etc.
Very urban, indeed. I bet it makes you glad not to face such challenges!
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@flozen I didn't even think of that scenario... I'm way too deep in the suburbia wasteland, haha.
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