# Marriage: How the #!@$ do you know?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marriage-how-the-do-you-know/473307>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 18, 2008, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marriage-how-the-do-you-know/473307 "2008-11-18T17:13:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2008, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marriage-how-the-do-you-know/473307/41 "2008-11-19T19:38:36Z")

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> [@dre2xl](#):
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> I’d suggest cohabitation first and foremost to see if it’s for you. Marriage isn’t much different than cohabitation, in my experience.

I didn’t do this because I thought it would be obnoxious to ask her to move to Louisiana without being serious enough to want to get married. I was right - it would not have gone over well. Not that I’m against it in normal circumstances, but there is a difference. I did have a girl I dated move in with me after I had moved away, but that was her wish, and it was done with a lot less consideration than getting married (and it didn’t work out very well.)

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