My bf and I have been together almost six years and been living together for five. We almost broke up back in June. It was really tough. But we worked it out. I'm glad that we were living together because that made it so that we were kinda forced to be around each other, even though we were mad at each other, and he was sleeping on the couch, and so we were able to talk to each other during that time & work things out. If we hadn't been living together, then we would have been away from each other during that time and who knows if we would have talked & worked things out. We probably would have just kept away from each other and assumed that the other person was done & over fixing things.

I would never marry someone without living with them first.