Personal Narrative: My Family In Transition

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Cohabitation is becoming more and more common among millennial. Cohabitation is when two individuals live together and have a sexual relationship, but are NOT married. In my Family in Transition class we talked about why this is becoming more common practice, and a few of the reasons being that individuals want to try out living together before they get married, for some its because they have a child together, but aren’t ready for the big jump of marriage, others think a wedding is too expensive and that they are in the right place financially. Whatever the reason may be the trend of cohabitating is becoming very popular among young adults.
As I am a senior I starting to think about my future. As you may have recalled by boyfriend and I are

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