Dating Despair…

Taylor Swift’s latest album reflects modern dating despair

I don’t know if you are a Swiftie or not? Taylor Swift’s latest album – The Tortured Poets Department – has been described by some as capturing the feeling or phenomenon of ‘modern dating despair’. Relationship break up is and always has been a source of great sadness, but the… Read more.
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Why don’t men like to commit?

It can seem difficult to find a man, in our current society, who is willing to make the promises of commitment in marriage. Why are so many unwilling?

Many young women still dream of finding a man who is willing to devote himself to her in love, publicly declaring that he will ‘forsake all others’ for the rest of her life. Much rarer, it seems, is the man in our society, who is willing to make such a… Read more.
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Living together

You can’t test run a married home without the marriage commitment. If you do – you will be merely testing for failure.

What is it? Living together, also known as cohabitation, is when two people in a romantic relationship move in together and experience a sexual relationship. The couple are not married and, unlike marriage, their status is not currently recognised in law. Why do some people live together? Is it a… Read more.
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Statistics on Marriage and Cohabitation

We should be careful not to make huge life decisions based on presumptions. Evidence that surrounds us is in agreement with the wisdom presented in the Bible.

Useful statistics relating to marriage. Family Stability and Children [1] By the time the children studied were 15 years old – 93% of those still living with both parents, had married parents.   Which couples stay together? [2] This study of children 14 – 15 years old, showed that 76%… Read more.