I'm interested to note that of your married correspondents some have ticked only "married" and others have ticked both "married, cohabiting" to mean the same thing. Makes the graph rather meaningless.
See this is another reason why it's silly to base things on whether people are cohabiting. I suspect you'd still have joint finances of some sort even if living at opposite ends of the country though.
And I know married people don't have to be cohabiting, I just think the fact that a bunch of people all in the same situation ticking different combinations was interesting, and skewing the graph somewhat.
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david jones (from livejournal.com)2007-07-26 04:01 pm (UTC)(link)
AFAIUI cohabitation is one of the few remaining legally enforceable parts of the marriage contract.
In what sense - that marriage entitles you to live with someone who doesn't want you to, or that it entitles you to retrieve your spouse and make them live with you? I can't see either of those getting past ECHR...
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david jones (from livejournal.com)2007-07-26 04:59 pm (UTC)(link)
In the sense that not cohabiting is sufficient to prove that the contract has not been fulfilled and therefore grounds for divorce.
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(Interestingly, I wonder if there's a pattern between more traditionally minded people just ticking "married"... but probably not.)
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And I know married people don't have to be cohabiting, I just think the fact that a bunch of people all in the same situation ticking different combinations was interesting, and skewing the graph somewhat.
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