The Downside of Cohabitation

So let's see what the New York Times has to say about the problems of couples living together before marriage.

Cohabitation in the United States has increased by more than 1,500 percent in the past half century. In 1960, about 450,000 unmarried couples lived together. Now the number is more than 7.5 million. The majority of young adults in their 20s will live with a romantic partner at least once, and more than half of all marriages will be preceded by cohabitation. This shift has been attributed to the sexual revolution and the availability of birth control, and in our current economy, sharing the bills makes cohabiting appealing. But when you talk to people in their 20s, you also hear about something else: cohabitation as prophylaxis.  

In a nationwide survey conducted in 2001 by the National Marriage Project, then at Rutgers and now at the University of Virginia, nearly half of 20-somethings agreed with the statement, “You would only marry someone if he or she agreed to live together with you first, so that you could find out whether you really get along.” About two-thirds said they believed that moving in together before marriage was a good way to avoid divorce.   

But that belief is contradicted by experience. Couples who cohabit before marriage (and especially before an engagement or an otherwise clear commitment) tend to be less satisfied with their marriages — and more likely to divorce — than couples who do not. These negative outcomes are called the cohabitation effect. 

Here;  http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/15/opinion/sunday/the-downside-of-cohabiting-before-marriage.html?_r=1  

So even the super liberal New York Times has recognized that there are NEGATIVE OUTCOMES when couples decided to live together, have sex together and act like husband and wife even though they aren't.

Funny...if the New York Times had checked the words of Jesus, who is the creator of mankind, they would have found out His perfect plan for marriage...and then they would have concluded that whenever we choose to go outside of God's plans...bad things happen.

As Jesus told us clearly in Matthew 19:  ⁴ “Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ ⁵ and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? ⁶ So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”

So the plan is for a man to find a woman, leave his family and live with his wife til death parts them.  Consummating the marriage is the "special" gift that God gives married couples. 

But of course mankind has come up with his own plan and our society will continue to crumble right before our eyes as the perverted plan continues to bear it's fruit of broken families and broken children.

Also notice that Jesus didn't say that marriage consisted of any two people who love each other...so clearly was not endorsing homosexual marriage and/or gay sex.