Cohabitation is living together and having a sexual relationship between unmarried couples. Cohabitation is legal in some country and illegal in the others, it is illegal in our country Lebanon. The number of couples who are in cohabiting relationships has steadily risen throughout the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st as the social, religious and political attitudes to cohabitation outside of marriage have changed.
Couples live together without marriage for several reasons. According to statistics the percentage of cohabitated couples in Lebanon is increasing “Recent figures have shown a 12 percent cohabitation increase from 1970 until early 2003,” (The Daily Star :: Lebanon News :: http://www. dailystar. com. lb).
Cohabitation should be legalized in our country. First of all, cohabitation can be a preparation for marriage or a good experience for the couples.
After cohabitating a period with your partner you will be able to decide to break up or to marry him/her. Living together with your partner will let you know all the good and the bad habits of him/her, cohabitation will give you a good idea about your life when you will marry your partner, and it will show you the difference between dating your partner and getting married.
The percentage of divorce in Lebanon is increasing in the last years, some couples are married in 3 or 4 months after they met first, cohabitation could be the solution of this problem, these couples can cohabit 3 or 4 months and then they will decide to get married or to end the relationship. Without cohabitating, it is extremely hard for a couple to have an assumption about each others.
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