Many couples are choosing cohabitation as a first test before the big leap! Unlike the old traditions when the couple waited until the wedding night to sleep together or live as a couple, things have changed significantly today!
Some relationship experts applaud this trend as a healthy step before marriage! But in fact all this may not be fantastic for your sex life.
A recent study published in The Journal of Sex Research found that couples who lived together before marrying had less sex in their first year of marriage and lower levels of sexual pleasure overall than those who did not. co.
The study, which consisted of 113 couples, tracked levels of sexual satisfaction during the first four years of marriage and looked at factors that may affect a couple's sex life, such as living together and having children before marriage.
On average, couples were in their late 20s and came from a mix of racial and ethnic backgrounds.
In addition to the fact that couples who lived together before marriage reported having sex less frequently and of lower quality, the data also revealed that dating for a longer period of time, usually a year or more, was related to sex in the the first year of marriage.
The difference in the frequency of sex between people who stay together for a longer or shorter time disappears after four years of marriage. And for couples who had children before they separated, the fourth year of marriage marked the time when they began having sex more often than those who did not have children before marriage.
According to the study authors, further research should be done to better understand how a couple's sexual relationship changes in the early years of marriage, and how these changes can lead to divorced or divorced couples.
