What does moving in with your partner mean to you ??

I think its important to do that to understand your other half more and to see if you have a future with them. Moving in together is the only way to find out other things about them and their habits without the lovey dovey ritual. Having a life outside a relationship is important too but spending time with your partner is a lot to take on unless you know each other really well and stayed over and gone away over night that's one way of knowing what they are like but you have to kind of think outside the relationship too. Is this the person you want to spend the rest of your life with spending most of your time and day with them?

Things are bount to change for the better but can be bad too which could either spoil or enrich a relationship to make the couple grow together as one.
Moving in together can either make or break a relationship. Its worth the risk in finding out if ye haven't been with each other long enough different if ye have been a couple a couple for years before moving in might be a bit better that way before going down the aisle then again most couples rather move in together than get married!

Ye wouldn't move in together if ye didn't think there was a future whether its marriage and or kids or just spending the rest of yer lives together. Its worth moving in together so as to know in advance and in time down the line as things can change. Might turn out ye aren't as compatible as ye thought or the relationship run its course before marriage. So its good to know in advance if the risk ye are taking to move in together is the right choice!

So definitely move in together before marriage is the best thing possible. You be a fool not to if you didn't think ye wanted to get married in the future, definitely move in together before marriage.

Personally, if I had an OH and was to move in with them lets face it for me it be difficult as I like my own company but I do get on with people when sharing a place with but it hasn't always been hunky dory even with our habits. Its other things too, if you not getting on it can get tough living with someone and if communication breaks down then that's the end of it. If its like you are back in your parents house then you need to think twice, you've reached the end of the road of the relationship.

Then again I wouldn't say no to moving in with someone but we would both have to know each other very very well, understand each other, know our faults and habits as it is not just the whole routine of the lovey dovey stuff but have shared other big things too, engaged with each others lives but each have a life of our own outside of the relationship too and been going out more than just a few months perhaps a year or more before I go down that road.

So as I have said it make or break a relationship even friendship by moving in together. You need to think carefully, is it an equal partnership or is the relationship one sided?

Living in sin my eye. Its not any more. If anything the church should be ok with it now. Its not taboo any more like it was 10 years ago.

People have as much right to share a house together as anyone. If a group of friends boys and girls shared a place would that be sin? No cause they aren't couples?! Just cause they are a couple doesn't mean its a sin to live together maybe in the eyes of the church because of the whole marriage and kids thing.

But by law, anyone can share a house together. Who gives a rats arse about the church who think its still a sin to live together. Most people are having sex before marriage and using contraception long before anyone move in together like so are they still considered a sin now?

'Sins' are a load of bull to be honest just made up. No sooner are you out of confession you start cursing so no I don't go to confession any more cause It's ridiculous and as ridiculous as these made up 'sins'.

It ain't the 1950's/60's any more like. Its the 21st century so god and his church has to face up to what ever human being wishes to do even its a sin according to the church so what. Its not a sin once you aren't breaking the law or be sent to jail for it like!

It make more sense to move in together its not the dark ages.

That was awful that the grandmother cut her granddaughter out of her will like that. Just cause she is a devoted catholic doesn't mean her granddaughter had to be. Makes no sense just cause she lived with her boyfriend before getting married. She got married didn't she, shouldn't that have pleased the grandmother enough she wasn't living in sin according to her any more but fair enough her strong religious beliefs got the better of her.

It was a silly thing to do really if it came down to that fair enough if she didn't want to give parts of her will to her youngest daughter's children.

My grandparents wouldn't have treated each of their grandchildren differently.
I'd be shocked if my mother ever did that to her grandchildren. I'd never forgive her. Every grand-child has a right to be treated the same what ever an outcome of the will is it's the grandmother's choice.

For my grandmother and my mam its more to do with people going or not going to mass.

opinion guy wrote: »

The grandmother didn't cut her out of her will - the aunts and uncles did. My reading of this is that they were greedy, didn't want to split the money with the daughter and bluffed the story about grandmother not approving which the judge bought.

However its does say the granddaughter got some separate inheritance - so seems there is more to the story than the paper is reporting. Perhaps it is a fair deal in the end.

Oh right must have picked it up wrong. I knew that the aunts and uncles did nothing about to have her included in the will so as to get their share of the will.

Maybe. She did get a fair deal in the end. And yes the aunts and uncles were very greedy. So the grandmother just didn't approve of her cohabiting with the boyfriend before marriage but it be no reason for her to cut her out of the will totally so the aunts and uncles used that against her so she wouldn't get any share of the will. If she got a separate inheritance it only be fair but all the grandchildren should have been treated equally regardless of circumstances.

southsiderosie wrote: »

Maybe it depends on the age and cultural differences, but one thing I found weird about living in Ireland is how many young people do the whole moving in thing for several years, then get engaged for several years, and then kind of sink into this netherworld of neither here nor there until their 30s. Out of my circle of close friends from home in the US, I only had two friends who moved in with the OH before getting married, and in one case, they were already engaged and it made sense to move two months before the wedding because his lease was up.

Your friends will have 50%+ divorce rate.

Myself and my girlfriend were planning to move in together before we hooked up. We had been friends for a number of years and we both wanted to move out of our family homes once we left college.

As it happened we got together before we found a place, so we put it off for a few months. Then we ended up doing it anyway. Wouldn't change a thing, what could be better than living with your favourite person?

Moving in with her was the best move ever in my life.Her brother lived across the road .If his upstairs bedroom window was open on a Friday evening it meant he wanted to go for a pint.

Mike 1972 wrote: »

AH Answer: I thought marriage was a trial

Nope, living with the person is the trial, marriage is the sentence