Are Live-in Relationships better than Marriage?

According to me, I don't think so live-in relationship is better than marriage because in living in a relationship are parents will never agree to that and without informing them we will leave another person so it will not be good for us and our parents also and his parents will not accept us in that situation like if I live in with him before marriage in a relationship so yeah it will not good so according to me I think so that it will be better if we will share with our parents if they will agree then we have to get married directly so after live in a relationship not accepting these types of things it is bad for other people and relatives it is too insulting your parents will also feel insult people will backbite about the couple and parents.

The first one is there is no commitment in live-in a relationship. Your partners can leave you anytime in the middle of any problem, and they will have not to bear any responsibility of the other partner, you can't claim in court for the mishappenings because relationships are not legal in India.

The second one is live-in relationships do not succeed in the long run because there is just an infatuation which happens for a short time and also gets over in a very short time so you have to face all the difficulties afterwards.

The third one is that suppose if you are in some relationship and it's not working out then you can't move to your parents' house but in marriage, if there is some problem You can share it with your parents and you also have the support of the law.

The fourth one is that there is no family in a live-in relationship whereas you get a family in marriage,
The fifth one is live-in relationships also deteriorate our Indian culture.

One can be independent and free and need not be under the control of wife or husband and mutual respect will exist in live-in relationships. In marriage, we may or may not have chances.

So, I support marriages rather than live-in relations.

I cant understand whats wrong with people.....
The only reason people can say live-in is not good is the status of women, n how life becomes difficult for them
But how can a love less marriage be better?

It always becomes a problem for the woman to lead her life post a live-in break up, as a divorcee is better accepted & respected

If anti-live-in people are saying that live-in lacks TRUST....then why are they so keen to have the trust of the legal document?
In a live-in the only thing that keeps the couple together is love & TRUST without any guarantee

Having said that,if men can cheat in marriages, it becomes all the more easier for them, cuz they can escape with the plea that they had not committed in the first place

What holds a relationship is trust, its very difficult to find a man whom u can trust,in case of live-in, & he is actually serious, why doesnt he want marriage?the possible reason being that he still wants to be sure......

This very reason why people go for live-in is questionable.But then,a love filled live-in is way better than loveless marriage.

My point is rights n security of women.What will happen if the guy leaves her?Unfortunately they are never given respect in our society, although lives of men from broken live-in never change.Women dont even get same legal protection.

But then if the guy is serious, then the couple can marry later too...which is most advisable if they have a kid.
But theres no reason to say they degrade our culture!!!
There are so many things in our culture that are disgusting.....n why do women have to take responsibilty of culture always?
we live in 2011, where we can adopt anything good from any culture, once u r an adult & capable of thinking

@Azeez : well Azeez u wrote very well... but this can only be applied to things.... because things are perfect to our work...... but human beings are never perfect....u will always find pros and cons in any person..... u will never get any person who will be having only positive points. so when you involved in marriage then you come to know what responsibility is??? am agree with your point that if somehow we got the person which we don't like at all.... for that we have so many options like we can be strict to change the behavior of your partner or we can have deep talks and one the important thing we must always share what we like and what we don't like... this is also applicable to open relations.

At last i want to say one thing... if you want satisfaction throughout your life......then go for marriage not for open relationship.. because these are nor persistent...and one more thing ,here for marriage we also have to do hard work for finding our best buddy........you can also go in the marriage market...(matrimonial)....like you go for bikes or cars...and i hope you will one day get good one...all the best

From my point of view, marriages are better than living relatioships.

As we all follow our culture.

Our cultures don't take living relationships in a positive way. Being in living relationship, doing everything to make your partner happy, giving your best to make your partner loves you, working together for better future, being physical, thats all while when you get married you have responsibilities of your family, partner and in future your childrens resposibility, you become more mature and more understanding, you will be having a happy family.

Suppose if you are in live-in-realtionships and its not working out then you can't move to your parents house but in marrige if there is some problem You can share it with your parents also and you also have support of law.

It's not only like that living relationship doesn't work at all. Some living relationships are enjoying their lifes as they want and being happier than married couples but as you know and I said it firstly culture is must important.

So i'll definately say that living relationship is not better than marriage.

Hi!!!! The entire concept of live -ins suits the western people and we indian are far behind accepting these things. Yet the youth today is of the opinion that Live Ins shall be helpful for them to understand their partners. If it just to understand your partner there are many other things like talking on phone, chatting or spending sme quality time with them.

For understanding whether to live wit a person or not will we have to go against our society. We being part and parcel of our society should never mess up with such things. For any realtion to be successful we will have to sacrifice a little so same is the same with marriages also. But we people today dont wanna sacrifice anything and wanna have fun too which is may things worse.

So what basically we should understand is its not like in live ins u understand your partner which will add up for a successful marrigae. Live ins dont make successful marriages but little compromise and trust makes it. So the entire idea of live in relationship has to be eradicated.

Well I oppose live-in-realtionships because of many reasons. Firt one is there is no commitment in live -in raelationship. Your partners can leave you anytime in the middle of any problem, and they will have not to bear any responsibilites of other partner, you cant claim in court for the mishappenings because live-in-relationships are not legal in India.

Second one is live-in relationships are not succeed in a long run because there is jus an infactuation which is happen for a small time, and also get over in a very small time so you have to face all difficulties afterwards.

Third one is that suppose if you are in some live-in-realtionships and its not working out then you cant move to your parents house but in marrige if there is some problem You can share it with your parents also and you also have support of law.

Fourth one is that there is no family in live-in relationship whereas you get a family in marriges, fifth one is live -in-relationships also detereoate our indian-culture.

As Vimal has said: A relationship works out on the trust factor. Marriage or live-in-relationship both has its pros and cons. In marriage you marry a person and settle down. It depends on the partners how the relationship between them works out to. Many marriages have happy endings and many dont even last for a month. It is same in live-in-relationship as well. Both can either have happy and sad endings. According to me the need for today in a country like India is that we take the positives of both the cases. For eg: A guy and a gal should meet officially in presence of their families, and families should also try and give them comfortable time and space to understand each other. They should spend some quality time with each other to try and understand each other. Also families should see to it that they should not force their children to marry before the right age as it hampers the relationships as many individuals are not matured enough to understand their partners.

Hi all.

I believe that marriages are better than live-in relationships by all ways. If anyone want a life partner then why not marriage. In Indian culture marriage is legal as well accepted. Lets forget about culture if we think about our personal life also we should go for a committed relation rather than a non-committed, in committed relation there is security for both not only for girls. But there is not a single committment in live in relationship. They are free and can ditch their partner for other without any fear. Lets suppose in a relation if one partner is in a problem and other helped him/her but at the time other one has any problem he/she can sinmply run away from the problem by leaving his/her. No doubt marriage means responsibilty but real way resposbility makes a man somehow perfect and a good person. If you are in a relationship then why not you choose marriage you should have that much faith on your partner or else you can live freely as a single.

Hi friends, I am swadesh from bhubaneswar. I totally against in live-in relation because India is a cultural country. It's culture is very old. Indian does not belive live in relation. Indian belive marrage life. Because marrage life is a happy life. It is treated as heaven relationship.

But in westren culture does belive live in relation. They change his\her life partner randdomly. In our culture marrage life is life long but his culture relation is like a pleasure. They broke his relation at one moment also. In our marrage life affection occure&our family is like a heaven place. So don't follow westren culture, in our culture understanding is there I. E both belive's with each other&if some problem aries they solve it good way. In some case after marrage they broke his relation this is not a good signal of our culture.

No,Live-in relationship are not at all better than marriages because in live in relationship there is no commitment.One person can leave his/her partner any time.There is no life time assurance that ur partner will always support u at any moment of life.It may happen that ur partner is living wid u only because of some kind of infatuation and after some time when that infatuation is over then he/she can leave u.Bt in marriages there is a commitment and also law of our country supports Marriages.they dont support live in relationships.So if a person who is married to u leaves u or tries to marry someone else then u can challenge him/her in court also.But in live in relations u cant do so.So I beleive that live in relations dont offer any guarranty but marrriages are like a bond or commitment between 2 people and their families