Ideas in this flowchart

• Cohabitation
• Cohabitation means that two partners move in together.
• The partners may be heterosexual, bisexual, or homosexual.
• They live together without the formalities of legal marriage.
• Cohabiting and married couples are similar in form and function.
• They differ in many significant day-to-day aspects.
• Many cohabiting couples eventually choose to marry.
• Cohabiting couples have a higher risk of divorce than couples that never cohabited.