Why You Should Live with Your Significant Other Before Marriage

Moving in with your significant other is a HUGE step. It's stressful and exciting all at the same time. You find out different quirks about your significant other that you didn't even know existed, whether those quirks be cute or not. The way he flosses his teeth every night in front of the television- not so cute anymore. It's a big challenge to go from being in a relationship with someone that you see a few times a week to seeing them every day. You learn more about them then you ever did before. Then there's marriage. Now you're not just financially responsible for yourself but you have to share that now with another person. Decisions aren't just yours to make alone, you now have to make them with another person. Marriage is another one of the hugest steps that you can make in your life. The decision of moving in with your significant other or marrying them should never be taken lightly.

Both changes are huge and take time to deal with. I believe that dealing with moving in and then getting marriage is the best way to handle things. You can get rid of the kinks of moving in with your significant other and make adjustments and get through that, then focus on dealing with marriage. Stress in a relationship should be handled in increments, not have everything piled on both people at the same time. It leads to unnecessary arguing and fighting and frustration. Spreading it out makes it much easier to deal with it all.

Both marriage and moving in are stressful enough as it is individually to put them together and do it all at the same time could easily be something that could tear down a relationship if you aren't truly prepared for it.