Cheating: Why Marriage is Better than Moving in Together.
According to the National Sex Survey, only 1% of married women said they had an affair in the past year compared to 8% of cohabiting women. Among men, 4% are unfaithful husbands vs. 16% who cohabit.
That means the risk is nearly 4 times as much for cohabiting men, and 8 times as much for cohabiting women, than for their married counterparts.
Which is odd, considering marriage is just a piece of paper. After all, marriage is merely a ceremony that represents sex, the union of two people. So indeed cohabiting individuals are “married” in the sense that they have joined flesh, but yet are in denial of any real commitment to which they have to hold to. And so, infidelity is more common and seperation.
Yet the breakup of cohabiting individuals is just as painful as divorce, it is like ripping that flesh apart from each other.
This is why it’s important to line out your marriage stance with your partner, whether or not you need a lavish ceremony, the moment you begin “living” together, and join flesh, you have all the same pains and joys of marriage, just without a legal agreement to stay commited to one another that society can help enforce.
It’s good to find out the marriage stance of a potential mate, to avoid one who is not ready for the ceremony, yet ready for the thing it represents, without any of the commitment.
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