“Marriage is just a piece of paper. What difference does it really make if you stand up in front of a church or a justice of the peace if we really love each other?”
What would you say?
In recent decades, the marriage rate has plummeted, but at the same time, the rate of cohabitation—couples living together long-term without getting married—has spiked, and more Americans have cohabited at some point than have been married.
On the other hand, cohabitation is fundamentally different from marriage, and studies show it sets couples up for relationship failure.
