Living Together Before Marriage, A Twisted View

Posted: March 30th, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: Living With A Partner | 1 Comment »

I recently stumbled across an article carefully explaining the sins and impracticalities of living together before marriage. Yep, you guessed it, straight from the pen of a Bible-basher who’s taken his/her views to the point of extremity.

You can read the article, Should Couples Live Together Before Marriage on Flowing Love. But if you’re blessed with any experience of the twenty first century, be prepared to grow more and more agitated with the passing of every sentence.

The basic gist of the article is that for a couple to live together before marriage, they can only be insecure or uncommitted to their relationship:

“What about someone who says that marriage is just a piece of paper and that it is fine for couples to live together? That generally comes from someone who does not want to commit, and could be associated with insecurity as well. It also may come from someone who does not want to commit, but at the same time desires to be sexually fulfilled, (self-indulgence).”

Hold on, at what moment does a couple decide the time is right to get married? From the moment they lay eyes on each other for the first time? If this ridiculous drivel were to be believed, we’d be catapulted from the womb with the name of our soul mate tattooed on our heads.

Many couples are perfectly happy to live together without sparing a thought for the ritual of marriage. And what of those who can’t afford to get married? Should they bow to the medieval preconceptions of a far-gone Christian and his WordPress?

“If we are truly honest with ourselves we will readily admit that couples who live together, outside of the context of marriage, are living in a relationally premature situation.”

You can rest assured the author is a pampered spoon-fed pony who never had to pay his own rent or find a way to cope with a recession.

Besides wanting to live together, sharing a home with your partner is about the only way for most couples to afford rent where I come from. Should they stay locked up in Mother’s basement until the day they can justify living together with a piece of paper?

With all due respect to Christians, because I know we’re talking about an extreme minority here, this is one of the tell-tale signs of an individual and a belief that has lost it’s place in society. I want to slap the author with a wet fish. That is all.

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