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Should I live with my fiancé before getting married?

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  • Bill Cochran

    Say "I Do" Your Way

    www.sayidoyourway.com  
    301-926-2671

    Rev. Bill Cochran is the owner of Say I Do Your Way. In this company, Bill & his wife Joyce offer their services as wedding officiants and pre-marriage Counselors. They have been working with couples for the past thirty-nine years and have conducted hundreds of weddings. Bill also serves as a trainer for Life Innovations certification of counselors and clergy in the Metro Washington, DC/Maryland/Virginia area. His extensive background in marriage and pre-marriage counseling has prepared hundreds of couples to navigate the tough issues of relationship building. Over the years, Bill & Joyce have built an exciting and fulfilling marriage relationship. Thus they see weddings as the greatest event in life. Helping other couples to share the same positive experience they enjoy in marriage is their primary goal. They LOVE weddings!

  • Should I live with my fiancé before getting married?

    In this video, Reverend Bill Cochran of Say “I Do” Your Way deals with a huge question he often helps couple process. Listen in and discover how to know if you’re ready for marriage and where you can find help in processing this significant decision.

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    Host: Should I live with my fiance before getting married?

    Bill Cochran: If you asked that question to your pastor or priest or rabbi, I am pretty sure they would have told you no. What I am discovering though is it's the vast norm across our country today that couples are living together before getting married.

    Now in the years past there had been lot of studies done on the effect that has on the happiness and longevity of the marriage, suggesting in the past that it's rather negative. I think we are in an era where things are changing a bit. What I am discovering is that probably 90-95% of the couples like married in the past year haven't been living together.

    A lot of them I have been doing some pre-marriage counseling with and the value I discover is they know what it is they need to work on. There is no secrets, no questions there about it. So, they are much easier to work with because before they get married they want to work through these issues and make sure that they are going to move beyond them.

    Whether or not you should, I would never say that. There is values both ways obviously. That's a decision that you and your intended need to make but nowadays most couples are moving in together long before they decide to get married and so some see it as a part of the process.

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