Ever Cohabiting, Easy to Divorce!

Please be careful if your son or daughter are tempted to "cohabiting" or living together before marriage. According to research conducted by Dr. Catherine L Cohan and Stacey Kleinbaum of Pennsylvania State University, U.S., couples who live together before marriage are more likely a problem in communication between couples thus prone to to divorce.

To 92 couples who were married about two years, the researchers asked their satisfactionin marriage, a history of depression, alcohol abuse, to use physical aggression to solve marital problems. In addition, respondents were also asked to directly address issues surrounding discussions of marriage.


From there it is known, couples who live together before marriage are less positive, and even being negative, when should discuss the issue in the marriage and providing support for their partners. Instead, they are more verbally aggressive and hostile to each other more easily compared with the previous spouse is not cohabiting.


The cause of it all, researchers suspect, there is the possibility of entering a marriage couples who had cohabiting to have a lower commitment. "The climate is very openrelationship that might cause them less motivated to develop the skills of resolving conflicts," the researchers report in the Journal of Marriage and Family.


According to researchers, it is not all cohabiting couples get divorced. However, fact that among couples communication skills they have low, the marriage counselor can begin to fix this shortcoming when dealing with the issue who had cohabiting couples.