Move in with me

Do you primarily regard cohabitation as a way to test out a partner's compatibility for marriage?

If you answered "yes," you might surprisingly be in the minority.

Results of a major national cohabitation study suggest most couples choose to share a living space mainly to spend more together, not to test their relationship's marriage potential.

Almost half of cohabitors of both sexes in the study cite spending more time together as a reason they moved in together; just 9% of men and 5% of women cited "to test the relationship before marriage."

I don't think living together has to be a "trial marriage," but I find it hard to believe a couple would move in together without having some inclination they might one day get married.

Otherwise...what's the point?

Right?

(Read more about the study here. Peruse readers' online comments and you'll enjoy many references to living in sin.)