The phrase
"SHACKING-UP" may not be a phrase some of you know or have heard of...
but SHACKING-UP mean to live with a man or woman in a s*xual relationship without marriage.Back in the day, until I was old enough as a teenager to know its meaning, and even today
SHACKING UP means the same that is used when two single people live together as married in a s*xual relationship as a couple, but are unmarried. Yeah, there are many so-called nice terms and phrases the secular world uses to make what they do sound ethical and morally right and acceptable, such as: in the world SHACKING UP is also known as common-law or cohabiting; having an affair outside of marriage, only means adultery; or making love, really means fornication (sex outside of marriage) or practicing s*xual immorality in biblical terms.
Of course, there are those who would care less about what God speaks, and some of us have all been there and done that
BEFORE we came to our senses and were redeemed unto salvation as Christian believers. As Christians now, we know that God is the only one who made the union between two people who are to be in love and enjoy the pleasures and comfort of s*xual relations in marriage: It is a known that God commands that to be in a marriage it is between a male and female as a couple, and the two shall be joined together in marriage as one flesh.
God commands that to prevent s*xual immorality, adultery and strong s*xual passions that we're unable to control, the man should have his own wife, and the woman should have her own husband, the couple in a dating relationship should get married to prevent s*xual immorality which is sin. I Corinthians chapter 7.
Many couples young and older, with and without children are making the choice to live together which is
SHACKING-UP. And this makes them SHACKERS Many women conclude to many false promises of marriage and myths, thinking its going to improve their relationship, but it really doesn't, it only hinders because SHACKING-UP in not a committed relationship and does more harm than good.
Women more than men tend to suffer greatly when they lower themselves to live with a man without marriage, thinking she has got him and he's going to marry her down the road, only thing... down the road never comes nor does the SHACK-UP end in marriage. And there she's off again SHACKING UP WITH ANOTHER MAN who makes the same uncommitted false promise, and it become a pattern of insecure and a desperate habit to SHACK-UP with every man she meets, just to have a man in a relationship.Here are some interesting stats on cohabitation "SHACKING-UP" gathered from the U.S. Census Bureau and the latest university studies:
*Living together is considered to be more stressful than being married.
*The average age of cohabiting couples is between 25 and 34
*Just over 50% of first cohabiting couples ever get married.
*If cohabitation is limited to a person's future spouse, there is no elevated risk of divorce.
*In the U.S., cohabiting couples taking premarital education courses or counseling are not at a higher risk for divorce.
* More than eight out of ten couples who live together will break up either before the wedding or afterwards in divorce.
*A Penn State study found that even a month’s cohabitation decreases the quality of the couple’s relationship.
* Children of cohabiting parents are three times as likely to be expelled from school or to get pregnant as teenagers than children from an intact home with married parents.
* Children of cohabiting parents are five times more apt to live in poverty, and 22 times more likely to incarcerated.
Stat research source: What say you? Is SHACKING-UP worth the personal risk of low self-esteem in an uncommitted relationship, right back where you started or worse before you decided to SHACK-UP?