Unmarried couples living together is an issue that has been criticized some years ago. And even these days, at the beginning of the twenty first century there still are people that treat it as a taboo subject. Moral views aside, evidence compiled by researchers suggests that cohabitation is not a good idea. However, the number of unmarried couples living together has increased dramatically over the past few decades.
            
             On the one hand, there are people who is in favor of living together before marriage. One of the main reasons why most couples decide on cohabitation is that by living together before marriage, they will know how compatible they are. Presumably, if a couple can get along living together before marriage, they will be able to get along with each other after marriage. Another reason for cohabitation is that the couple don't want to go though the legal processes in case their marriage ends in a divorce. And a last but not least reason is money; a divorce might have devastating economic consequences in one or both parties, while it might not if you are not legally married.
            
             On the other hand, people that are against cohabitation argue that what couples don't seem to realize is that they will never know what married life is like unless they are married. Living together may prove compatibility for a moment in time, but it provides no evidence for your happiness together over a lifetime. On the subject of money, whether marriage will go wrong or not it's impossible to know, but in the case it went wrong you have the choice of signing a premarital contract for the economic costs not to be so hard for either parties.
            
             As I see it, neither cohabitation nor marriage are terrible things, they are just two different things in different times of your life, although I strongly believe that couples should live together before marriage providing they are engaged. As far as I'm concerned, living together gives each perso...