Yesterday Pope Benedict XVI warned couples that co-habiting is not a replacement for marriage, as he held an open-air mass focusing on family values before up to 400,000 pilgrims in Croatia.
Once rare, now cohabiting is becoming the norm. The number of marriages preceded by cohabitation rose from about 10 percent to over about 50 percent.
And the percentage of women in their late 30s who said that they had cohabited at least once reached over 48 percent .It seems these days people tend to co- habitate or "test the waters" before marriage.
In my BCD's Before Christ Days when I was in my early twenty's I too bought into the lie that living together was better than marriage. I lived with my boyfriend to see if and how things would work if we got married. Guess what? we never got married. My mom hated-it and she voice her opinion about it. My Mom would say if you is worth moving in with, then you worth marrying. Looking back I hate I did that. That was the one and only time I disgrace and shame my family. Question: Would you test the water knowing it's wrong and your family disapprove of it?
