Unmarried women who live with men are unhappier than married women because society "disapproves" of their behaviour, according to a sociological study.
Here is what the report suggests.
Do you agree with their findings?The study of 22,000 people from around the world found that British women who cohabited with men before they were married were slightly unhappier than married women, and that the most likely reason was because they had "violated" normal behaviour and had to endure disapproving glances.The researchers also claimed that one of the possible reasons they were unhappy was because they were "pitied" for failing to persuade their man down the aisle, and they had low self-esteem.Countries with a strong, traditional view of marriages, such as America, Bulgaria, Brazil and Mexico were places where the correlation between cohabiting and unhappiness was strongest.
There are quite a handful of women who do not wish to get married at all. What about them? Just because you are a live in girlfriend is no reason to make you less happy than a married woman, after all, not all married women are happily so. Right? Sure you got him to put a ring on it but ever since the honeymoon came and went you two hardly ever have sex, the kids take up all your time and you stopped looking at each other in 'that' way a long time ago but you're married so that counts for something lol Some of these so called studies baffle me where do they come up with this stuff? Do they simply pull it out of thin air?
I know the pressures of society, family and friends can be enough to make you depressed but come on I refuse to believe these statistics. In fact I know a lot of single women, maybe even living with their men, that seem perfectly happy. I also know a lot of single women living alone hoping to find a man to marry and whether that will include shacking up or not is up for debate. Overall, you make yourself happy not someone else. Just my 2 cents!
Speaking of live in's are there certain 'rights' you have like in a common law when living together?
What about shacking up? Would you be opposed to living together before the ring to see if you even want to walk down the aisle together or do you think you can do your due diligence without living in the same quarters? What if you put a time limit on the shacking like per se 6 months and you either 'Shit of get off the can' as my Aunt says! lol
