"Cohabitation is everywhere. Living together may once have been scandalous, but today it's the way most people begin partnered life with the person
they love."
- From the introduction to Unmarried To Each Other
News and commentary about cohabitation, marriage, and other topics of interest.
Links: Unmarried To Each Other: The Essential Guide to Living Together as an Unmarried Couple
The Alternatives to Marriage Project
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"[Cohabitation Nation] is new, interesting, and worth a gander."
- Fig and Plum
"A very promising cohabitation-centric weblog."
- Lockhart Steele
Variations on a theme:
Council on Contemporary Familes /
Indiebride /
Celebrate Friendship /
Lucy Stone League /
Partners Task Force for Gay and Lesbian Couples /
Partnership for Caring
Epic individuals:
Lockhart Steele /
Michael Oates Palmer /
Jonathan Van Gieson /
Josh Albertson /
Emma Goldman /
Gawker
Crossing the threshold into The Land of Cohabitation
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Posted
9:23 PM
Sources say this was the most emailed story in Thursday's Globe. As of Sunday night, baseball wins the week.
More unmarriage
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9:20 PM
Lifetimetv.com reports on "The Un-Marriage Certificate: Why more and more couples are creating cohabitation contracts."
Would you buy a home with someone you've never kissed?
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10:18 AM
According the way most people think of dating and marriage in decades past, the typical pattern was this:
Dating -> Marriage -> Sex -> Joint Home Ownership -> Cohabitation -> Children
In reality, since the early 1900s, the majority of people have had sex before marriage:
Dating -> Sex -> Marriage -> Cohabitation -> Joint Home Ownership -> Children
Nowadays, with most couples living together before marriage, the typical pattern is more like this:
Dating -> Sex -> Cohabitation -> Marriage -> Joint Home Ownership -> Children
But, increasingly I am seeing this among people in my generation:
Dating -> Sex -> Cohabitation -> Joint Home Ownership -> Marriage -> Children
One couple has such a different approach to this pattern that it was worthy of a Seattle Times story.