1. Cohabitation The Love Attitudes Scale’s Six Love Styles
Cohabitation: Good Or Bad?
Why Does Cohabitation Look That Way?

2. Hendrick & Hendrick JSPR1993
“Lovers As Friends”
The L.A.S. Six Love Styles
STORGE
66%
FRIENDSHIP LOVE
CLOSE FRIENDSHIP BECOMES LOVE
+ “Love is really a deep friendship, not a mysterious, mystical emotion
EROS
34%
PASSIONATE LOVE
LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT
+ “My lover and I were attracted to each other immediately after we first met.”
PRAGMA
17%
LOGICAL LOVE
COGNITIVE APPRECIATION FOR PARTNER
+ “It is best to love somebody with a similar background to you.”
LUDUS 2%
GAME-PLAYING LOVE
FLIRTATIOUS AND NOT COMMITTED
+ “I have sometimes had to keep my two lovers from finding out about each other.”
MANIA 2%
POSSESSIVE LOVE
FEELING OF OWNERSHIP OVER LOVER
+ “I cannot relax if I suspect that my lover is with somebody else.”
AGAPE 2%
SELFLESS LOVE
PUTTING ONE’s LOVER ABOVE ONE’S SELF
+ “I would rather suffer than let my lover suffer.”

3. Cohabitation: Good or Bad For Society
Pew Research Center 2010
Cohabitation: Good or Bad For Society
More than 60% of couples live together before getting
married

4. Cohabitation: Good or Bad For The Couple?
Cohabitators have higher rates of divorce
Cohabitators say it’s more likely
they will divorce
Cohabitators have more negative communication (verbally aggressive, less supportive) in their marriages
Cohabitators have lower levels
Infidelity is more common among cohabitators
of marital satisfaction
Physical violence is more common among cohabitators
Cohabitation: Good or Bad For The Couple?
More than 60% of couples live together before getting
married

5. Cohabitation: Why Such Bad Outcomes?
Selection
Who cohabitates matters
They’re more liberal and less religious
Cohabitation Impermanence
Less respect for commitment
They believe romantic relationships are disposable
Normalization
Less stigma for both things
They don’t believe either thing is all that bad
Sliding vs. Deciding
Less thoughtful commitments
They “happen into” cohabitation
Cohabitation: Why Such Bad Outcomes?
More than 60% of couples live together before getting
married