Posts with tag cohabitation

When cohabitating, should you buy a home with your partner when you move in together, or keep it noncommittal with a rental? The answer varies from couple to couple. Cohabitation casualty Rina Welsch, a musician in Columbus, Ohio, spent four years unraveling the tangled mess of having bought a home with her... Continue Reading »

For the first time ever, the number of young adults in the U.S. who have never been married has exceeded the number of young adults who have -- 46.3 percent to 44.9 percent. A recent Wall Street Journal article also reports that the number of married adults continues to drop. For instance, in 1960 72.2 percent of all... Continue Reading »

You moved in together for all the right reasons. You understood that living together before marriage was no more threatening to your relationship than living apart. In fact, you totally disregarded those pesky statistics about cohabitation leading to an eventual divorce because you knew that people who are less likely to... Continue Reading »

Can men and women just be friends? A new spate of mixed-gender dorm rooms and platonic mortgage partnerships say yes. According to a recent story in the Los Angeles Times, the trend of collegiate men and women platonically rooming together is catching on at a handful of institutions across the US. Created as a way to... Continue Reading »

I can't imagine anything scarier than trying to find my new roommate on Craigslist. What a cavalcade of crazy. Moving in with a random person you meet off of an ad has got to be one of the riskiest things one can do. How can you predict what lies ahead after meeting someone for 20 minutes after which time you declare that... Continue Reading »