This week we talked about marriage. It was super interesting! There were a lot of different aspects to marriage that I didn't realize were important. For instance, I hadn't realized that cohabitation and premarital sex actually make divorce more likely. I had always sort of assumed that it was the opposite.  When two people begin their married lives after having lived together it actually is much harder on the couple. The two have been used to living together, but not being one. Money and responsibilities are often kept separate prior to marriage. So when they do marry the dynamic changes drastically, or rather it should. When the couple fails to change this idea of two separate people living together, they remain just that. They don't become one. This puts an extraordinary amount of stress on both of them and often leads to separation. Kinda crazy right? Any ways I guess I just wanted to say that there's a reason some traditional values exist, they work. For thousands of years and in almost every culture sex and cohabitation were things reserved only for those who married. I won't say that all traditions are good, but they certainly aren't all bad either. Anyways, just food for thought.