Cohabitation Essay, Research Paper

Cohabitation

This paper talks about the good ways and the wrong ways to live

before you get married. Cohabitation is when a man and a woman live

together and are sexually active before the take the vows of marriage. In this

article, it talks about the reasons why cohabitation is wrong and explains how

it will harm the relationship and future marriage, if there is one. The church

tells us that living together and having sexual intercourse before you get

married leads fifty percent of the married couples to a divorce. They also say

that sixty percent of the couples break up before they even get married due to

the cohabitation they participated in. This pamphlet also gives examples of

some reasons engaged couples might give to try and justify their actions. The

church reacts to every reason a couple might give. The church explains why

their reason is not a good one and if their reason is something like, we want

to see if we can put up with each other first before we get married in case we

are not able to , then the church says, living together before marriage is not

like living together in marriage because living together before marriage does

not give the couple a binding commitment to support the relationship .

Some of the other reasons people might try to give to support their

actions are, why does the church interfere with our sex lives, isn t that our

business ? The sex life of a couple is their business but the church tells them

what a sin free sex life is and that couple must try their hardest to keep the

laws God. The church is only interpreting God s laws for us to follow and

they must educate us of what is right and what is wrong. The couples sex

life is God s business also and that is why God has set these laws for us to

follow.

This pamphlet gives many reasons not to cohabitate that overpower the

reasons given by the people who choose to partake in cohabitation. Many

people base their decision on convenience. Marriage can become a very

inconvenient and also demanding life to live and convenience will not prepare

anybody for the reality in their future. Another reason that is given by the

cohabitors is that they need to save money for the wedding and if they live

together it will be more economical and they will have more money saved for

the wedding. Everyone on the earth wants to save money but is even a few

thousand dollars worth more than a lifetime of happiness. Married couples

that did not cohabitate are more likely to have a long happy marriage than

those married couples who did cohabitate before their marriage.