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• Cohabitation and marriage differ in relationship clarity and later divorce risk.
• Cohabitation has been studied extensively for the last three decades.
• Research has consistently compared cohabiting couples with married couples.
• Cohabitation and marriage are two different relationship forms.
• Cohabiting people have less clarity about the intention and direction of their relationship.
• Married couples have greater clarity about the intention and direction of their relationship.
• People who cohabit and later marry are more likely to divorce than those who never cohabited.