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Cohabitation is an arrangement where people who are not married usually couples lives together. They are often involved in a romantic term or permanent basis.

Cohabitation could also be defined as two consensually agreeing to consume the right traditionally include in marriage, including sexual relations as well as obligations and duties typically found within marriage. This agreement can be formal agreement or include financial contracts.

There are several effects of cohabitation which leads to a statistically lower likelihood of divorce within the first year violence, infidelity.

The term cohabitation is not commonly used to describe people who are merely sharing a living space or who call themselves roommates. Cohabitation can pertain to either heterosexual or same sex couples, but it is most commonly used in reference to heterosexual couples.

Many couples states the primary reason for living together is to find out if they are compatible. Some view living together as a way to determine whether they can agree to a longer term marital commitment.

Cohabitation gives the couple an opportunity to see how they would adjust to each others habits and living together before marriage also gives each party the option to end the relationship without the marry legal complications involved in divorce.

Many couples also move in together in an effort to spend more time together, working separately, living in different geographic locations and having different daily routines can live the little room to be together.

Cohabitation affords the couple the convenience of more time to weave their routines, interests and assess the relationship.

"According to Folashade a student of Prince Abubakar Audu University, gave her opinion on how it gives stress to the female host, because they mostly engage in washing of clothes, cooking, arranging the house and performing other marital function. She also emphasized on the tendency of them getting pregnant and also having series of abortion which will become a danger to their life and also beat up their female partners. This always affect the marital stability and life of birth.

Another incentive for some couples to live together is the saving of money. When they have already established that they care for one another and want to see where the relationship is going, they see moving in together as a way to save for rent, food and other living expenses.

Here are opinions from Martha, and others who stated that cohabitation has really changed their lives. They further discussed how their boyfriends had maltreated them, how they used to perform wifely duties in the house, how they had been sexually harassed. They also said that they don't have freedom of movement, they can't even go to church or anywhere without their boyfriend's permission, they even regretted cohabitating with their boyfriends.

The degree to which individuals reported cohabitating to test relationship was associated with more negative couple communication and more physical aggression as well as lower relationship adjustment, confidence, and dedication. Testing the relationship was also associated with higher levels of attachment insecurity and more symptoms of depression and anxiety. Men were more used more likely than women to endorse convenience as a reason for cohabitating.

"Nigerian Afrobeat artiste Simisola declared her support for couples cohabitating before marriage, saying it is a means to better understanding. Simi disclosed that she and Adekunle Gold had chosen to live together prior to tying the knot, a decision she believes contributed to their deeper understand of each other".

In most universities, some girls tend to live with their boyfriend because associated with a number of problems including sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS, abortion, sexual abuse and violence, low academic performance, increased cost of living and medication, and unwanted pregnancies.

This feature writing recommends that university students should be enlightened during orientations about the dangers of cohabitation, parents should be encouraged to visit their children and find where and whom they live with while in school.

ABAYOMI HONESTY OLAOLUWA