living with your mate

United States
October 3, 2010 11:40pm CST
I recently just moved into a new place with my boyfriend. We had been living together before but it was just my name on the lease and not his. Now both of our names are on the lease. I am a little nervous to see how this goes. I know they say that when you live with someone that you are not married to it doesn't usually work out. What are your views on this? Have you ever lived with your boy friend or girlfriend? What happened?
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• Philippines
5 Oct 10
i I relate\,living your my gf ex: we need to know what we do,. like married we mate each other because that is love someone but there was a time when i mate my bf they be a good leader or communicating to hem and when its over to him i can relate because i dont know why.
@I_LUV_U (2519)
• India
5 Oct 10
I think it would be a generalization (albeit not a bad one) to say that it wouldn't work out if a duo lives together. But if I were to decide for myself, I personally would opt for us to stay separate because I think distance fosters a relationship as much as intimacy does, so to balance the two would be crucial and it's hard to achieve it when you are too close because often one gets so absorbed in the other that they may stop fancying them as much as they would be, otherwise. Therefore, a safer move would be to gradually propel the relationship up through the various challenges it is faced with. Good luck!
@advokatku (4033)
• Indonesia
4 Oct 10
living together without marriage rope? Oooh do not ... It only invites the anger of God. Better, you say no than later God will curse you
@jerikjames (1041)
• Philippines
4 Oct 10
I haven't lived with my girl. But we both really wanted to. We've been together for almost six years now, and I have spent days with her in our vacations. Yeah, it's not exactly the same, because you share expenses and all, but I think I don't think living together should have that a great negative effect on your relationship. There would be problems of course, but I think you should believe in your love and don't forget your respect on one another.
@expertme (43)
• Philippines
4 Oct 10
I would prefer to live with someone first before actually getting married. Because youll never know what your partners attitude if you havent live with him in same roof, its like preparing your self rather than get married and live together and all of a sudden there are a lot of things you dont about him that might shock you or vice versa. Hope you guys stay together for the longest time;D
@pokumon (644)
• United States
4 Oct 10
I think it depends on the relationship. I myself had not had much success in this venture. I moved in with one boyfriend and it just made us fight all the time. We ended up hating each other and breaking up 7 months afterwards. I moved in a second time with a boyfriend because he really needed the rent money. Both his roommates had moved out and he couldn't make rent. My rent was cheaper by nearly 200 dollars but I still moved in with him because I felt bad. It was a wonderful few weeks, but then I had a psychotic episode (I have schizophrenia). He came and visited me every day in the hospital and I broke up with him thinking I did it for a movie (I thought I was being filmed). I still loved him and he still kept visiting me. He broke up with me when I got out because his mother wanted him to. I cried. I had to move back home. I think it was for the best anyway. It was an on again off again affair with him. Strangely, he just got diagnosed with schizophrenia too. What are the chances of that? It didn't end well for me, but that doesn't mean it won't for you. I was extremely happy for a time.
@damned_dle (3942)
• Philippines
4 Oct 10
Yes I had. She got pregnant and we eventually got married. We are living happily now. I hope you too.
• Philippines
4 Oct 10
well, i havent experienced it yet, living with my boyfriend in one roof. but here in our country and social norm, it is not right for them to see couples who have not been married to be living together. although, now a days, many couples have been living in together to test their relationships if they can last forever or not. in that way, if they didn't worked out, they had no headache in signing an annulment papers, or divorce. since annulment here in our country is too much expensive to do. about the saying, that you may not work out because of some couples who undergone living in together, i agree to disagree with them. if you will keep on thinking that it would happen into your relationship then 100 percent it will happen. what you believe is for you to decide. just think positively, that your relationship no matter what problems or struggles may come to shaken you, be not afraid and be strong. besides, you decided to live in for futures sake of entering married life. just be God the center of your relationship. :)