Sunday, 16th November 2008
Should cohabitation before marriage be encouraged?
Opposition spokesman for youth Owen Bonnici yesterday asked if the time had come to consider encouraging young couples to live together for some time before they get married.
Speaking in Parliament, Dr Bonnici referred to the number of young married people going through separation proceedings and said this was something which should be considered.
Living together before marriage could perhaps help young couples understand what it meant to live with their partner before taking on a much bigger commitment.
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Relationships are not like buying new cloths. You do not try on a relationship, and then change it if it does not fit perfectly. There is no such thing as a trial marriage. Cohabitation is most likely one of the major causes for marriage breakdown later on.
How long a couple should live with each others so they can understand each others and then get through happy-lasting marriage?
Will the couple be allowed to live the co-habitation to the full? Probably yes, then what if the experiment didn’t wok and there will be a baby born? Would the government defray the coast of the experiment?
Don’t you think such a suggestion is putting women dignity at stake?
They just live with a girl for months or several years and then leave on the pretext of not clicking with her and then move to another girl.
That's apart from any children in the process who together with their mother will be lumped on the social services.
Nice and enjoyable jobs waiting for the studs, disaster for the family and the social services.
Such suggestions speak loudly on the quality of the politicians that we are electing to represent us in Parliament.
Couples who cohabit do not understand what marriage is all about, but understand what living with their partner is all about, which then leads to learning how to share your space with another person and respect your partners needs etc etc... If everything works out, the next step is for the couple to get married in order for them to have a family...
If it doesn't work out, if the couple cannot share the same space, then its not meant to be - simple - move on...better breaking up as partners then separating (divorce?) after marriage...especially in a country where separation is "FROWNED" upon!!
"Living together before marriage could perhaps help young couples understand what it meant to live with their partner before taking on a much bigger commitment."
How can couples understand what marriage is by cohabitation when marriage itself is a BIGGER COMMITMENT.