Word: cohabitation
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...Most couples today cohabit before they marry. The crucial issue here is whether they moved in together with the full intention to get married, or whether they moved in together just because it was the logical thing to do, since he was always at her place anyway. You might think that living together is a sort of "trial period" that helps prevent bad marriages, since they can break up before taking an oath to each other. But the odds suggest the opposite; they divorce more. Why doesn't this filter work? Very likely, whatever it was that made them...
...moment [the country is] floundering around. You get a little piecemeal reform: the sex laws are repealed. It's like someone wanting to be praised because he's stopped beating his wife. It's crazy. It is not the height of my ambition in South Africa to cohabit with a white person. It's nonsense. Who introduced these laws in the first place? And now we must praise them because they've suddenly discovered they don't need these laws. Yet if the government said it was going to abolish apartheid laws one, two, three--the dramatic impact could change...
SOLOT: I do think that is a big part of why many people cohabit. They're concerned about divorce, and they want to make sure that they're taking the decision to marry seriously enough...
When the works of two visual artists cohabit the same wall space, the results always seem to fall on either side of a clear dichotomy. Either there is constructive interference where artistic harmony and concord make it such that the sum total is greater than the individual parts, or a spectacular train-wreck of a collapse results from divergent intentions. The work of Gerry Bergstein and Howard Johnson, featured at the Howard Yezerski Gallery in Boston, mercifully stays on its tracks, as both artists explore items of personal fetish, fascination and self-reflection...
EQUAL WORK Married couples who live together before the wedding share household chores more evenly than couples who don't cohabit before tying the knot--at least in Australia. A study at the University of Queensland found that married couples use a more traditional division of labor, with the woman doing the housework and the man taking on the more manly outdoor tasks. Cohabiting couples, however, tend to have a more egalitarian and liberal arrangement, and many of those patterns carry over into the marriage...