imcool84 wrote:
At first, I was all about the living together before marriage thing too, but then I read a couple of articles that made good points that boyfriend-girlfriend couples that lived together had the most trouble with getting to the next stage of marriage since they were already "playing house".  And also I have friends that have said that they would never move in with  a boyfriend  before marriage again because it was a huge nightmare.  I would think that after dating long enough and spending enough time with them that you would already know enough about the other person that moving in after marriage wouldn't be too scary.
Uhh where are these articles? If signing a piece of paper dramatically alters a relationship, then the couple obviously wasn't mature or stable enough for marriage.
My husband and I lived together before marriage and our relationship in no way changed. Then again, we were never "playing house" nor did we have any unrealistic expectations of what marriage is like. In fact, we had a much more realistic view because we had already been living together.