Cohabiting versus Marriage - the Christian view.

The next reason why people choose to cohabit their marriage is because they believe that marriage is oppressive and very restrictive and that the signing of a piece of civil paper is a meaningless action to take. One in five mothers cohabit because they are against marriage.

The last reason people cohabit their marriage is because it provides an individual’s own self-fulfilment. This means that cohabitation is meant to make oneself more independent and greater control. In which case if a couple are not quite sure where their relationship could lead to or whether they think that their partner is untested and that they should just cohabit for a while. In other words cohabitation gives people freedom from the responsibilities and restrictions of marriage.

2. Marriage is central to Christian Sexual Ethics because it is the process in which the world was formed and how Jesus Christ was born of the Virgin Mary. Christians also believe that if a couple love each other they should show their commitment to love by marriage. Christian Sexual Ethics also points out that once a couple is married they should not commit adultery which is one of the Ten Commandments. To conclude marriage is very central to Christian Ethics because marriage is done in order for a couple to share their love and have a sexual relationship.

3. On one hand I do agree with the statement because it is the couples own free choice to choose how they lead their relationship whether it is a close relationship or just a quite quiet relationship. Some people may just want to have a humble and quiet relationship with each other because they want to take things easy without the fear and confusion of divorce. A happy couple might also choose not to live with each other because it might cause minor conflict about how things are run in the home.

On the other hand I do think that a couple who love each other should marry and live in the same home. The reason that there is marriage is because it is there for couples who love each other to make commitments and confessions to each other. If people love one another then it is best for them to really express their love and get married, otherwise if they don’t get married then the relationship may not be a proper one and in fact just a minor and irrelevant one. I also think that couples who love each other should live with one another because it gives huge improvements in the relationship itself. It also gives the couple a chance to see each other far more than usual and once again this is good for the relationship.

To conclude I believe that couples should be given the freedom of choice as to whether they get married and live with each other because different people like to take things at different speeds to others.