{"id":28356,"date":"2011-09-21T15:31:46","date_gmt":"2011-09-21T15:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/christianity_today_caryn_rivadeneira-the_science_of_shacking_up\/"},"modified":"2011-09-21T15:31:46","modified_gmt":"2011-09-21T15:31:46","slug":"christianity_today_caryn_rivadeneira-the_science_of_shacking_up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28356","title":{"rendered":"(Christianity Today) Caryn Rivadeneira&#8211;The Science of Shacking Up [Talking to Glenn Stanton]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Some couples want to &#8220;test drive&#8221; their relationship before committing to marriage. Does this help or hurt?<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Scientists find that cohabitation cuts down on commitment. The message of living together is, &#8220;I&#8217;d really only like to take part of you. And maybe some time later I&#8217;d like to take all of you.&#8221; No wonder so many cohabitating couples break up or fall into unhealthy patterns. The relationship defines itself by a holding back of commitment.<\/p>\n<p>People, especially men, who cohabit are less committed to that relationship but also less committed to future relationships. Again, that&#8217;s not a preacher&#8217;s line or a moralizer&#8217;s line. That&#8217;s a scientific line. Cohabitating men who go on to marry are significantly less committed to the marriage itself than men who don&#8217;t cohabit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2011\/september\/science-of-cohabitating.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some couples want to &#8220;test drive&#8221; their relationship before committing to marriage. Does this help or hurt? Scientists find that cohabitation cuts down on commitment. The message of living together is, &#8220;I&#8217;d really only like to take part of you.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28356\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,42,419,98,125,154,129,108,126,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-evangelicals","category-marriage-family","category-men","category-other-churches","category-psychology","category-religion-culture","category-women","category-young-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}