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When Others Disagree:
Surviving Pressure and Discrimination
Chapter Three

Though cohabitation is far more socially acceptable today than a few decades ago, many partners still run into disapproval and discrimination that ranges from mild to severe. This chapter contains:

- Twelve snappy comebacks for the next time someone at a party asks you why you aren't married

- The three major arguments against living together unmarried, and how to respond to each

- The truth about what the Bible really says -- and doesn't say -- about cohabitation

- How to respond to those who base their anti-cohabitation arguments in social science research (like "Living together will increase your risk of divorce")

- How to survive pressure to get married when you're not planning to or ready to yet

- Where you're most likely to run into marital status discrimination

- What your options are for responding to discrimination, and the pros and cons of each choice





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Considering Cohabitation | Why Aren't You Married? | Pressure and Discrimination | Staying Together | Naming Each Other | Legal and Financial Protections | Domestic Partner Benefits | Commitment Ceremonies | Unmarried With Children | To Marry or Not? | Cohabitation's Past and Future
 
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

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There's a lot of pressure from my sisters, from girlfriends and female family members. Women say, "Well, he won't marry you, so hey, go loose, girlfriend!" And I tell them, "That's not important to me," but they don't understand that. "Mm-mm, girl, if he won't marry you, you have the right to do this, that, and the other." It's a really big thing for a lot of people. "You've been together nine years, and what, you're not married? He ain't put no ring on your finger?"
     - Tracey, quoted in Unmarried to Each Other