"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
Cohabitation By Location
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9:52 PM
Epic! Google Labs unveils the location search, and within hours, excited web users report that we rank #1 (or letter A, as the case may be) for cohabitation in Portland, Oregon.
I predict it will be awhile before this service makes its way to the google homepage, though. A search for "Lockhart Steele" and "New York" reveals a map of... Brooklyn.
Unmarriage Certificate
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9:58 PM
I'm getting a ton of web traffic from people searching for "unmarriage certificate." Anyone know what caused the discursive explosion? One reader reports seeing an MSN ad displaying the phrase.
First comes cohabitation, then comes marriage
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11:38 AM
It's the summer of weddings! This weekend, D and I attended the Exeter, Rhode Island wedding of our friends M and D (no relation), and last weekend we were in Denver for the wedding of T and E. Two great couples, two fun weddings. I am biased, of course, but I can't help but think as these couples walk down the aisle that they seem so right for each other in part because they know they are-- they've already been living together for nine years and four years, respectively. It seems so clear that more years of happiness will surely follow.
No trip to Colorado would be complete without a visit to the Focus on the Family welcome center in Colorado Springs. A quick flip through their Citizen magazine and it's clear that I disagree with them on just about all the hot topics of the day: cohabitation, of course, along with abortion, same-sex marriage, sex education, even, say, what magazines Wal-Mart carries in its checkout lines.
Yet, in spending three hours on their "campus" (several buildings house 1,350 staffers), I am left with a feeling akin to "hate the sin, love the sinner". The best description of it might be "disagree the views, admire the approach." They are incredibly effective at what they do, and there's a lot to learn from watching. A few key areas to appreciate: (1) a strong sense of mission (which the tour guides could recite from memory); (2) a commitment to addressing constituent needs (an entire room of staff cubicles whose sole job it is to reply to letters written to the ministry); (3) a focus on media and publications (Focus on the Family radio airs on something like 3,000 worldwide and there's an entire building devoted to printing and shipping their publications); and (4) dedication to raising the next generation of leaders (an entire semester's worth of college classes can be taken at their offices).