She discusses «the cohabitation effect» as well as researchers» findings that
cohabiting partners often have differing, unspoken agendas.
Not exact matches
The things they insist are terrible for you and your
partner — like, say, fighting and
cohabiting — are
often not so bad.
For example, I think there are plenty of people who begin to
cohabit without having clarified any future path with their
partner who do fine because they land with someone who is a good
partner for them anyway — very
often, with the same person they would have ended up with if they had been more cautious.
Cohabiting couples who have a child in their twenties and then break up — and that's almost two - fifths of them in the first five years —
often also go on to have another
partner or
partners.44 One study of young urban parents based on data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study found that for 59 percent of unmarried couples with a baby, at least one
partner already had a child from a previous relationship.