Sentence examples for cohabited before from inspiring English sources
In many ways, William and Kate's marriage can be read as a thoroughly modern affair – they cohabited before taking the plunge; they are equally well-educated; their love for each other overrode the old strictures of class.
Juliette Annette Pourtalai) was a Gypsy, moreover a Gypsy with whom Peirce had more or less openly cohabited before marriage and before his divorce from his first wife Zina.
Maybe we got some quiet disapproval when we cohabited before marriage, but I was so cheerfully ignorant that it was practically impossible to feel bad about it.
Therefore, following the curve, we may predict that when cohabitation becomes more common in Italy, the differences in terms of divorce rates between persons who cohabited before marriage and those who did not should decrease substantially.
The main starting point is that crude rates, or other descriptive statistics, suggest that divorce is more common among persons who cohabited before marriage, although the impact may vary markedly between countries depending on the prevalence of cohabitation within a society (Liefbroer and Dourleijn 2006).
The second mechanism, causation, considers that individuals who cohabit before marriage might have developed (during cohabitation) different attitudes and value orientations that make success in marriage more difficult (Axinn and Thornton 1992).
On the other hand, there's the group of people who think it's a bad idea and may believe in the "cohabitation effect," which basically states that couple who cohabit before marriage tend to be less satisfied in their marriages.
2% of people cohabited in the 1960s, now, at least 70% of us cohabit before or without marriage.
It was partly out of rebellion that my wife and I chose not to cohabit before marriage.
Considering that most people now cohabit before marriage it makes sense that formalising the relationship is regarded as a big step.
Nevertheless, I should be feeling smug after a recent burst of headlines forecasting marital misery and early divorce for couples who cohabit before getting wed.
