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Should You Move in Before You are Married

This is on relationship and couple moving in together.

Should you move in before you are married? I think that many couples are moving in together nowadays and they are doing well too. I have seen many couples who move in before they are married and they are doing well. You risk losing your mystery to your partner if you’re not married.

When you live with your partner, he will know everything about you and you might not be this mysterious creature that he can’t wait to get to know anymore. He will see without your makeup and he will see you in your worst sleeping outfit. He will smell your morning breath and he will see when you make your mess. It’s like being married without the paperwork. However, there is nothing wrong with it. Many people do it nowadays. It’s more of a convenient thing. Rent is expensive nowadays and if you can get a roommate then it’s perfect. You can help each other out and life is much better having a partner. It’s healthy if you love each other enough not to fight every single day. There are couples that fight all the time when they move in together. They fight more when they live together. Hopefully that will not be your case.

You can also get to know people more by moving in with them but you can also get to see sides that you never thought was possible. People are different when you live with them. They start to control you or yell at you every time you leave the dish unwashed. You get to see their little habits that will make you want to move out the next day. I moved in with one of my sibling before and he turned out to be a disaster. Even though he was my family member, he was a monster. He was abusive and picky. He had ocd and he was controlling too. I thought I was living in prison because it felt just like it. You will never know people until you move in with them. You should be careful too when moving with someone you don’t really know too well. You think you know them but that could be a mistake. People are very different behind closed door. After living with them for awhile, you might not even want to get married. It could be possible. You might get turn off by some of their habits. You can move in if you feel like it but there will be some risks. If you’re lucky, it will be the best thing that you have ever done.

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  1. Joie Schmidt

    On November 23, 2009 at 1:30 am


    Nice article – - it’s important to look at it from all points of view.

    Blessings.

    Sincerely,

    -Liane Schmidt.

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