Before Marriage Living together can be fine. I am not necessarily against living together before marriage. I think it just depends on the couple and what meets both of their needs at the time. My husband and I lived together for almost three years before we got married, and we have had what I would call an exceptionally happy 20-year marriage since then. Many of our friends also lived together before marriage, and their marriages have been good ones.
People live together before marriage for lots of different reasons.
Actually, I think it was because we took the marriage commitment very seriously that we took our time about making it and lived together first. Rather, we loved each other and wanted to be together, but didn't want to get married till we were very, very sure it was the right thing. After a few years of living together and doing some growing up together and coming to have greater faith and trust in ourselves and each other, I realized that I was fully ready for marriage and that he was the one and only for me. There was a brief period during our living together when each of us briefly flirted with the possibility of seeing other people - and even did so. And, we realized that we loved each other more than anything or anyone.