tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26981669.post6606861539334444932..comments2024-03-23T10:55:30.196-05:00Comments on Cold Fusion Guy: The deceptive fable of "test drive" MarriageJim Peethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07649414726939918803noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26981669.post-79354187887802587032010-11-23T13:34:50.849-06:002010-11-23T13:34:50.849-06:00According to Focus on the family sources I read, c...According to Focus on the family sources I read, cohabitation triples the rate of abuse and increases the risk of divorce by 50%. When the divorce rate is already 40% or so, that's huge.<br /><br />When my brother told me he was going to cohabit, I warned him of exactly this correlation. Thankfully, he and his now wife are still on the right side of both statistics, as far as I know.Bike Bubbahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08193546045614393425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26981669.post-45045904122860863672010-11-23T07:37:54.106-06:002010-11-23T07:37:54.106-06:00I have a link or the PDF saved somewhere, but ther...I have a link or the PDF saved somewhere, but there is more damage to cohabitational couples than simply a higher chance of divorce. The article I have saved had a lot of statistics to prove many things, a couple were: married couples make significantly more, more happy, much lower spousal/child abuse. The abuse one I think is huge, if you think about it. I believe every statistic showed that most arguments for cohabitational couples are proven wrong.Daniel Stahlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13929486581075009512noreply@blogger.com