A marriage that comes after a few months of a relationship (each is staying with parents) has a big shot of a premature disaster, to the disappointment of the partners involved. A mature relationship, where most subjects have been defined and passed through, is better for serious challenges, like the ones that appear when you try handling things on your own. It can be said by a person who chooses to live with his partner without commitment.



Romanian marriage, a delicate subject in peoples lives, has to wait until the couple decides they can spend their life together. This period is meant for them to grow up equally. It might be a marriage rehearsal, even though it might be with different partners.

In the Romanian conception, relationships that do not end in marriage are a feature of modern society and traditionalist people do not agree with them. Natives are still horrified when hearing the word "concubine", but psychologists have noticed an improvement in peoples way of thinking things through.

These days, parents have the possibility to accept newer evolutions of relationships. They are not old fashioned, so moving in may not affect them or the relationship between the children and the parents. Friends are not surprised any more if a boy and a girl live together.

The "training" period in other couples relationship can be even shorter. Marriage can be brought into discussion after more than a year of a relationship. Maybe they do not even think of getting married when they decide to live together. If they had not got along, they would have considered this period of living together as a challenge, because living with someone can tell you everything about that person - everything you could not have known before making this step.

According to psychologists, being together without commitment does not offer guarantees. For example, some experts in family psychology think that secret recipes for a successful relationship have not been invented yet.

However, there are claims, that there is a level of intimate routine, which once reached, may endanger the couples future. If the two live together for a year or two, they have all the chances to get married, as well as it is probable that after 4 years of living together, without being married, the relationship ends.

Theoretically, routine appears after 3 years. Couples who "live together" have been statistically measured four years ago. Since then different statistical bodies have counted over 800,000 people who have chosen this form of relationship in Romania and indeed the number is climbing, as the negative influences of joining the EU catch up with Romania.

Comparing it to 90s sociological studies, the number of unmarried cohabitants has tripled until now. The specialists in Romania marriage are not concerned about the results, as they know these tendencies are similar worldwide.