Many marriages fail because of wrong expectations from the association. Most of the young people enter into marriage expecting it to be a life long party where the other partner is the host.

Marriage demands taking responsibility, maturity and mutual adjustment. But there is no way a young person can perceive reality and shape his/her expectations accordingly. Dating a person can give only a partial or distorted picture of things to be expected.

Now question is: can living together help in this situation.

Staying together with the person one intends to marry without being legally tied, do help in certain aspects.

Living together can be an excellent opportunity to know each other, and get a feel of what being together demands and how being married is different from dating the opposite sex.

If staying together makes the attraction and mutual understanding deeper and the participants feel the urge to spend the rest of their life with each other then they can go ahead and tie the knot. The decision will be a matured one. And the marriage will have good chance of success.

But if in case the period of togetherness fails to deepen mutual love both will be free to go their own way without any bitterness and legal formalities.