Well for me, I would rather stick to the institution of marriage over the other. Crossing the walls of all religions and cultures, marriage has been accepted and acknowledged as the powerful institution over the years by every society.

Marriage is a commitment, and love always has unsaid commitment. Marriage is the confirmation of it to the society. Live in relationship gives escape route to it as and when convenient. Some people rightly say that live-in relationship is like a test-driving a car. It gives you good feel when you are on driver’s seat and it gives bad feel when you are car and you are dumped after driving few miles.

At least one of the partners in live-in relationship has hidden agenda of driving few miles and then dumping thereafter. Are there no break ups if people marry after live-in relationship? If there are, why do people hesitate to enter into marriage? In India, there has been tradition of marriage from the thousands of years. It had been great success. People quote this as great example in many parts of the world. In marriage, there is commitment of love, commitment of caring and commitment of cooperation. When one is fully committed to these three things, there arise no question of saying that one has not found the right partner.

Live-in relationship is a relationship with out commitment in very first instance. One can understand what kind of the a person can be, who has no commitments. We all do not trust and like a person in our life who has no commitments. Do we?

Live-in relationship is a way to get out from relationship and hook up with new one frequently and easily on the pretext of finding right person. I think that this approach is creating increased numbers of people without the ability to sustain a long-term relationship. Marriage protects from the social problems also. Married women suffer less physical and sexual abuse than those who are in live-in relationship.

With the increase in number of couples opting for cohabitation over marriage, be it in western countries or eastern countries, I thought it pertinent to write a blog and seek people’s poll on the subject. I would like all those who read this blog to keep their views on the subject and all should encourage their friends, relatives and acquaintances to put forward their views on this very important subject.

I would like to ask my fellow bloggers, what would they prefer if given the option to choose between the two?