God confers joy, peace, and love. Satan dispenses lies, misery, and bitterness. Satan's latter-day lies stand in contrast not only to heavenly revelation but even to good research on families and human development. The world suggests that being married is just one rather old-fashioned and unprogressive way of living. Rates of cohabitation are exploding.
Divorce is epidemic.
Both cohabitation and divorce are offensive to God. The wisdom of God's commandment is supported by decades of research. Cohabitation is not an effective testing ground for an enduring relationship. The multitude of benefits of marriage for both men and women is sustained by Waite and Gallager's new book, The Case for Marriage . Married people live longer, have better health, earn more money and accumulate more wealth, feel more fulfilled in their lives, enjoy more satisfying sexual relationships, and have happier and more successful children than those who remain single, cohabit or get divorced.