# Breaking the news that I'm living in sin to my super conservative parents

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-the-news-that-im-living-in-sin-to-my-super-conservative-parents/553823>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 15, 2010, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-the-news-that-im-living-in-sin-to-my-super-conservative-parents/553823 "2010-09-15T06:57:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2016, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-the-news-that-im-living-in-sin-to-my-super-conservative-parents/553823/81 "2016-03-29T12:23:35Z")

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> [@Urbanredneck](#):
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> Forgive me for throwing this out but would it terribly hurt you to actually move out from your boyfriend and just get a regular roommate?
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> I mean, I see many young women like you who who live with a man for years where he gets all the benefits of a wife (sex, companionship, housekeeper) and yet they dont marry them.
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> I dated my wife for a year before marrying her and only then did we move in together.

She’s married now. Curse the zombies.

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**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2016, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-the-news-that-im-living-in-sin-to-my-super-conservative-parents/553823/82 "2016-03-29T12:53:52Z")

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> [@Urbanredneck](#):
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> Forgive me for throwing this out but would it terribly hurt you to actually move out from your boyfriend and just get a regular roommate?
> 
> I mean, I see many young women like you who who live with a man for years where he gets all the benefits of a wife (sex, companionship, housekeeper) and yet they dont marry them.
> 
> I dated my wife for a year before marrying her and only then did we move in together.

It’s nice to have these occasional reminders of the 1950s!

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**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2016, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-the-news-that-im-living-in-sin-to-my-super-conservative-parents/553823/83 "2016-03-29T20:41:08Z")

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This is a zombie thread, AFAIK, **Hazel** and the guy are now happily married and have been for awhile. So…closed.

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