Couples who cohabitate will innately share more of their daily lives than couples who live apart. After seeing another person day in and day out and sharing in the less glamorous parts of that person’s life, couples who get too comfortable with each other can begin to take one another…
Couples should discuss in advance how they will act and diffuse heated situations in the future. Although no two people ever plan to reach an impasse in a nasty fight, planning for the worst is better than being confronted with a situation in which neither partner is willing to forgive…
After two people move in together, it may be easy for them to spend time mainly with one another and to neglect their friends and past contacts. The best advice is to not live in your partner’s shadow and to maintain your own life, so as to not fall into…
When two individuals begin to live together, they must learn to accept compromise as part of a regular routine. Individuals should learn to compromise on the issues that are least important to them in order to win on the issues that are more important to them. Cohabitating means learning to…
Couples should document everything that needs to be done in the home, determine who can either most proficiently or most easily complete each task, and divide up the chores accordingly. Couples should factor in issues such as who works the most or who contributes more financially to the household. To…
Pre-arranged legal documents usually make things easier on both parties if or when a couple breaks up. These agreements can determine who gets the furniture, the home, the car, and any additional items belonging to both parties. Cohabitation agreements can also include provisions spelling out what happens if one partner…
Finances are the number one issue that couples fight about, whether married or not. Cohabitating partners should sit down to make a budget and determine who will pay for rent, groceries, and anything else either partner will need. The couple should also decide whether to open joint accounts or maintain…
The first survival tip for cohabitating couples is to actually define the relationship before agreeing to share a residence together. When couples move in together, they should seriously discuss what it means to both of them. They should define what kind of commitment they are making to one another, whether…
Charlotte Divorce Lawyer Blog will focus on 8 tips for surving cohabitation. These tips for surviving cohabitation are from an article on Yahoo entitled “Going Cohab? 8 survival tips for staying together.” These tips will be discussed in subsequent blog posts to follow. To cohabitate or to marry? That is…
According to a recent article by USA Today, today’s couples are delaying tying the knot longer than ever. In the post-World War II era, most couples married in their early 20s. Now, the average age for a first marriage is 28 for men and 26 for women, according to the…