How many SO's have you lived with?

[Flexin]

Originally Posted by Adeptus_Minor

I've gotta wonder about that too.
What about marrying a person makes them any different than the person they were before you married them?
There are those who believe that making the commitment to a person before you co-habitate makes you more tolerant of whatever they bring into the marriage.
Then again, there are also those who think that having a child makes the baby vomit not icky and their cries music to your ears in a crowded restaurant.

That last part made me laugh. I had to clean up my sons vomit tonight and it wasn't great. And the cries today made me want to rip my hair out.

James

[Mr Lefty]

Nope

[wildchild]

1 and I'll never do it again if I get out of this one alive. Won't ever get married.

[Lucky3623]

Originally Posted by Homeslice

Everyone is different, but for me I can't see marrying anyone without having lived with them first. There are way too many little idiosyncracies and pet peeves that crop up when 2 people share the same space 24/7. You think you know everything about someone but you really don't. Better to discover that stuff before the wedding rather than after.

I always said it is like buying a car... you wouldn't buy it without test driving it, right?

[CrazyKell]

Everyone is different but for me living together is like marriage....and I just don't want to do it until I'm actually married.

I think anything I'd find out about that person in the course of our relationship would be enough. It's not like I'm going to end a perfectly good relationship because he can't put his socks in the hamper?

It's kind of like "why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free".

[Archren]

Originally Posted by CrazyKell

Everyone is different but for me living together is like marriage....and I just don't want to do it until I'm actually married.

I think anything I'd find out about that person in the course of our relationship would be enough. It's not like I'm going to end a perfectly good relationship because he can't put his socks in the hamper?

It's kind of like "why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free".

Well, I didn't find out just how ridiculously OCD my ex was until he and I started living together.. not a dealbreaker in and of itself necessarily, but one more nail in the coffin, if you will. It was also at that point that I found out he was a nudist (and an exhibitionist one at that). Or when we had arguments and I wanted to leave the house (to go somewhere else to calm down since he would follow me to every room trying to continue the fight), he would lock me in. You know, those little things...

[Particle Man]

None until I got married.

[Krabill]

2

I wound up marrying the second one.

[dReWpY]

one, the current and one and only, better half on two wheels

[Sixxxxer]

Originally Posted by CrazyKell

Everyone is different but for me living together is like marriage....and I just don't want to do it until I'm actually married.

I think anything I'd find out about that person in the course of our relationship would be enough. It's not like I'm going to end a perfectly good relationship because he can't put his socks in the hamper?

It's kind of like "why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free".

Yeah But Shit is Different when you wake up everyday in the same House as someone else...Like Me, I put shit where I KNOW Ill find it...Then Little Miss comes along as says, THAT DOESNT GO THERE ZOMG WTF BAHHHHHHHHHH and puts it in a diff spot...And Im lost for 5 minutes tearing through the house looking for my shit because its not where I left it.

I dunno...I wouldn't marry someone without living together...And Im not religious so the whole living in sin thing can lick my balls.