Why do young people get so easily tricked ? , The TV sells them rubbish and they buy it

Success in Marriage .
Lots of marriages fail
Is the answer to live with someone before you buy in ?" Rules of Engagement" TV series  seems to test the water on this .My generation thought you didn't need rules -- you just got 'married " Strangely the program is good in name only like so much TV - talks but does not deliver . No rules , no engagements but lots of testing and little discussion of consequences ( like "walk of shame" )You get to see what happens but ad infintum and with no real understanding to lift the situation

I feel for young people because their parents don't even know why their faith in marriage and happiness didn't work . The sixth commandment says how it works and so does experience .  Is marriage the problem or their understanding of it the problem ?Infidelity breaks it for one .
Does shacking up with someone help you decide? Not if baby boomers experience is evidence - many tried -few succeeded in that . If you are going to share house share it with lots of people and not your bed .  Extra people in marriage will threaten  the sense of security in both parties whether its before  the event or after.
To make a good decision in marriage you need to practice observation NOT participation cause the person  you choose will be for life .You are  studying to make the BEST decision of your life ---takes time wisdom and self control.You don't learn that in the pressure cooker .

Its also not a new idea . It happened to Boomers  . Many got married because they thought happiness was automatically connected to the institution .Clearly it is NOT.
With so many marriage failures around them young people are still not so sure how to proceed  - fair enough. but
Is the answer to live with someone before you buy in ? How can anyone be clear when marriage is still the objective for most but known infidelity is the way to kill it . The baby is in their somewhere,and commitment to one person and self restraint are absolutely necessary. You don't learn restraint shacking up with someone.
While it is nothing new , shacking up together is still seen as the new and better way ---as they say ?
 That too has been well tried by baby boomers and the rate of failure and damage there is very high .Don't just watch the TV,  watch real people.
Anyway here it comes again from one young person . you be the judge.


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Thanks for sharing young ones but I would not recommend the practice esp if the ten good reasons you give are the best you can find - IMO you shouldn't even live with someone alone if you can't work that out from observing ( participants cannot be objective). Groups ( shared house ) are better than one to one . 

No one in favor of the idea seems to want to talk about "the walk of shame" that many women feel when they don't wait for commitment. The TV talks about it all the time but NEVER resolves it . It entertains ,but never really explains.
These are small things too because, if God is real, he either meant for you to show restraint or not - far more imp than your 10 ?
Stats are the terribly dumb toys of reactionaries and many of my now old school mates live in expectation of an insight when they have missed most,; because of their growing cynicism about how things work ( stats prove nothing much)-- you can spend you life just "testing the water "and they have ,
MI Stats give little insight to you personally , Don't try to evolve your life -, Take the true biblical frame as a given and prove it is the road to a confident well tested proactive lifestyle choice that your parents, gp ggp etc etc took .

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Young Lady 1  Ummm but you're not a woman... So you have no idea what you're talking about re 'walk of shame'. It's actually none of your business what other people do, especially in their private space. Next you'll be telling us what we can and can't do with our bodies... This all fits within the misogynistic male frame of mind.

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Young person 2 These ongoing comments are a legitimate "opinion", but none of them address the original post, which is erroneous. It states that living together does not lead to marriage. We all know ppl who ARE married, who have once lived with each other. Therefore the premise is wrong. Nothing else about morals or opinions should therefore be discussed in relation to this post. People with opinions or ideas about telling other people what to do or not to do could open their own post on a different theme. The original article contains errors of FACT, it is therefore not relevant to continue about morality themes.

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yp2 . and it is of no bearing to "this" argument proposed originally by Mark if some relationships don't work. Some marriages don't work either (up to 30% of them) .... the ONLY argument proposed here is that living together won't lead to marriage, and t...See More

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You don't want to talk about it Diedre Emilia .Well that is your choice, but please always be open to the possibility that you can learn and should be open to others about CONSEQUENCES rather than SPECULATION , IMO how you enjoy your life is dependant on moral choices not statistical ones , 

Study the programs on TV and tell me that "Rules of engagement" provides you with some answers . Is it not like so many other programs just an endless stream of entertaining encounters where people just keep falling of the edge? - if they live like that .

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