• April 26, 2024

The question of whether to live in partner before marriage is beneficial or not clear with the results of an investigation of the University of Ohio .

According to the prestigious study center, "get together before the marriage "Can increase the probability of maintaining a stable relationship in the long term after getting married.

For the study, the researchers analyzed the statistical data of 2 thousand 761 women born in the 60, and the results indicated that the previous coexistence contributed significantly to a union of long term , which increased proportionally to age.

Consequently, according to the researchers, the coexistence Prior to marriage, she found that relationships lasted more than 12 years by 52% among women who formed a first union with their future spouses at ages between 24 and 28 years; a proportion that increased up to 78% if the union had been made after 30 and before 34 years.

Predictable success?

But even, when it is the second experience of free union that ends in marriage , in the case of the group of younger women (between 24 and 28 years old), the probability of this second relationship lasting at least 12 years was 148% with respect to the first, and for the other group (between 30 and 34 years), then reached 187%, also with respect to a first time.

Clarification. With great emphasis the researchers explain that the results can not be used personally to try a "premarital" relationship; that is, they should not, and can not, be used to make specific predictions about whether a partner determined will be better living together before get marry or not.
 

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