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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Cohabitation vs. Marriage
A question especially for the couple who cohabited...
How did your relationship/mindset change once you were married? What was the biggest adjustment for you?
I was talking to a friend today who has been living with her boyfriend for 6 months...and realized how different it is to be married.
Re: Cohabitation vs. Marriage
I asked Chris, he says "the only thing that changed was the commitment because now we are stuck with each other. We can't just get sick of each other, we have to work it out" He also said, "Being married creates more of a bond between us"
I would have said not much changed. I do agree w/ the commitment.
We met in 05, moved in together shortly after, and got married in 09. We did have a brief break up of 6 months from Oct 07-March 08.
I do think that it depends on the couple whether or not things change. This may be flammable- We combined our money before we got married. We had joint credit cards/bank account.. It was like we were married w/o the paper. So for us, some things really were not that different.
However, there are couples that don't combine money till they get married, and even then they still don't. So there would be a lot of changes for that couple when they got married.
This is exactly how I feel. Some people say it doesn't feel any different to be married, but it feels different to me. I lived with H for 8 years before we got married so I have plenty of experience with cohabitation! We have been together for almost 14 years now, and married for only about 3 of those years. I am a patient woman, lol!
Biggest difference is that we call each other husband and wife now and we have combined our finances. I wouldn't say it feels much different than before though.