Same here. My wife and moved in together while we were still engaged. It just didn’t make sense for me to extend the lease on my apartment. Despite S&F’s links, at 20+ years we’re still in love, still together, raised children to adulthood, etc. I think he’d have us believe, that those who don’t believe as he does are doomed to a life of misery pain.
RE: I think he’d have us believe, that those who don’t believe as he does are doomed to a life of misery pain.
Again, that’s not what I am saying.
I am simply citing STUDIES that show that those who live together before they are married are MORE LIKELY to be divorced that those who don’t.
Not that I wish it on people. I am simply citing STATISTICAL data.
Using your great marriage as an example (and bless you for that) is akin to showing several examples of women who are taller than men and then on that basis telling me that women are taller on average.
Look at how the sixties brought in so much immorality. Look at how Obama and many hippie minded leftist have lost all moral bearings, and look where they have been taking our Nation, down the sewer hole. First came free "love" and shacking up with each other, aborting unwanted children, babies sacrificed on the alter of selfishness. Then came homosexuality being promoted as a great and beneficial life style and now even extended to the promotion of pedophilia. There are now so many women having children without a father being around to help raise them. Many of these children grow up unbalanced mentally, sexually, and spiritually. Who needs a father, when father government is willing to take care of you from cradle to grave. The welfare mentality is passed down from one generation to the next, but the immoral, leftist Democrats get their votes. The fruit of immorality is rotten and increasing exponentially. You are either taking a stand for truth, morality, and all that is good and holy or you have, through a poor example and moral lassitude, caved in, and are a part of the problem.
It is amazing how many people deign to think that they understand and know human nature and what is good better than the God of the Bible. Positively amazing and completely wrong. It's called sin. If wise, people who have had sex outside of marriage, for any reason, will come to the place where they understand that it is sinful and must be repented of. None of us are near perfect, and many of us have sinned grievously in our life times, but that doesn't mean that we should shamelessly say that something that we have done that is sinful is good, just because we think that it worked out OK for us. After all many of the the worst of sinners often, in their own eyes, think that they are just fine. God is willing to forgive anyone who comes to Him with a repented heart, but when we excuse and promote our brand of sin, we are against Him, and all that is good.