{"id":682809,"date":"2010-03-04T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2010\/03\/04\/does-living-together-first-make-marriage-last\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T11:11:54","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T15:11:54","slug":"does-living-together-first-make-marriage-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/682809","title":{"rendered":"Does Living Together First Make Marriage Last?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/category\/sex\/\" rel=\"tag\">Sex<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/category\/love-and-relationships\/\" rel=\"tag\">Love &amp; Relationships<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/category\/happiness\/\" rel=\"tag\">Happiness<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.thatsfit.ca\/media\/2010\/03\/house.jpg?w=780\" alt=\"\" \/>For many people, living with a partner before considering <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/search\/?q=marriage\">marriage<\/a> just makes sense &#8211; it&#8217;s a test run to determine whether you can really live together peaceably, or whether you&#8217;ll actually send each other screaming in opposite directions. It might come as a big shock that he refuses to do the dishes or that she sometimes watches 12 straight hours of television. You can learn a lot about people when you&#8217;re <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/search\/?q=dating\">dating<\/a>, but when you have separate apartments you can still retreat to your own space to engage in whatever weird behaviour you want. This week, Sam Roberts at <em>The New York Times<\/em> looks at a study that explored whether couples who live together before they get married are more likely to stay married.<\/p>\n<p>And what&#8217;s the verdict?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2010\/03\/04\/does-living-together-first-make-marriage-last\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Continue reading <em>Does Living Together First Make Marriage Last?<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2010\/03\/04\/does-living-together-first-make-marriage-last\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permanent link to this entry\">Permalink<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/forward\/19381189\/\" title=\"Send this entry to a friend via email\">Email this<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2010\/03\/04\/does-living-together-first-make-marriage-last\/#comments\" title=\"View reader comments on this entry\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: Sex, Love &amp; Relationships, Happiness For many people, living with a partner before considering marriage just makes sense &#8211; it&#8217;s a test run to determine whether you can really live together peaceably, or whether you&#8217;ll actually send each other screaming in opposite directions. It might come as a big shock that he refuses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1691,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-682809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2RD3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1691"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=682809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":784114,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682809\/revisions\/784114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}