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Couples who live together before marriage go on to have stronger marriages than couples who do not.

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INSUFFICIENT LEANING
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Is it true that couples who live together before marriage go on to have stronger marriages than couples who do not?

Unclear. Two relevant sources address the claim only in part and both point against it: one study summary reports no benefit of cohabiting before marriage and some added risks for cohabiting before a mutual commitment, and a Pew-cited Bowling Green paper reports that among women marrying since the mid-1990s cohabitation is not tied to heightened divorce risk. Neither source directly measures whether premarital cohabitation produces stronger marriages.

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Evidence against · 2
The Pre-engagement Cohabitation Effect: A Replication and Extension of Previous Findings -
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The Pre-engagement Cohabitation Effect: A Replication and Extension of Previous Findings - PMC Lock. (n.d.). pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0014358

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Cohabiting couples more likely to divorce?
2011
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Cohabiting couples more likely to divorce?. (2011). skeptics.stackexchange.com. https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/5191/cohabiting-couples-more-likely-to-divorce

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