Your friends Jeff and Lucia are considering living together as a kind of trial run, to see if they want to get married. They know you are studying psychology, and ask you whether psychologists know anything about couples who live together. Which of the following would best describe the current information?
a. Cohabitation before marriage is generally a good way to prepare for marriage; those who have cohabited later have more lasting and satisfying marriages.
b. Cohabitation before marriage appears to be helpful for some couples, especially those with higher levels of education. c. Cohabitation spoils people for later marriage; it is a bad idea.
d. Cohabitation per se has little demonstrable negative effect, but neither does it make
later marriages more stable.