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Bride and groom hands on marriage certificate

Marriage: Optional – Disposable – Re-definable?

What Ever Happened to Marriage? Guest Post by Dennis Franck – Coach, Consultant, Speaker Before 1970, it was called “living in sin” or “shacking up” and was illegal in every state of the union. Today only seven states have laws making unmarried cohabitation illegal, although they rarely enforce it. Cohabitation has sky rocketed since 1990: […]