How cohabiting couples differ from married ones
Photo: Yuri Arcurs/Getty Images/iStockphoto You probably wouldn’t be surprised to learn that more people today are moving in with their significant others than they were a generation ago. What is a little more surprising, though, is just how much that number has jumped even in just the past handful of years: Around 18 million adults in the U.S. were in cohabiting living situations in 2016, up 29 percent from 2007. But while there’s plenty of research out there on marriage in the U.S.
The study didn’t take future plans into account, meaning it didn’t distinguish between the couples who saw cohabitation as a pitstop before marriage and those who intended to never marry.
In past research on people who live together, “one of the things they found is that financial stability is really important to couples before they enter marriage,” says Kuperberg, who wasn’t affiliated with the CDC study. “So couples want to pay down debt, maybe finish their education.” That also, she adds, helps explain why cohabitation is on the rise: because that financial stability is becoming harder for younger people to attain.
As time goes on, in fact, people who don’t support the idea of cohabiting may find themselves increasingly in the minority. “It’s definitely become less stigmatized over time,” Kuperberg says. “We’re kind of in the second generation of people living together before marriage … Now it’s almost unusual if you don’t live together before marriage.
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