The following is what I find from an essay which is entitled Cohabitation, Marriage Values and Marital Satisfaction: A Study of Taiwan society written by Yi-Yin Jung and Ming-Chang Tsai.
It points out why people who cohabit before marriage have lower marital satisfaction. There are three main points:
1. For the poor, cohabitation is an alternative of marriage. The rate of divorce is related to low social status and poverty. So it is possible that cohabitation will lead to divorce.
2. People who cohabit with mates have different values from others. They don't think that marriage is to fulfill parents' expectation or the obligation of procreation. They may pay more attention to intimacy and romance. If there is something wrong in their relationship, they are easily have quarrels and even break up.
3. Some people think the experience of cohabitation can weaken the faith that marriage is a permanent combination. Cohabitation can let people enjoy some advantages of marriage, such as getting along with lover all the day. However, you don't have to go through the responsibility in marriage. It will make people think that marriage is troublesome and not beneficial at all.
It shows that cohabitation before marriage doesn't help people get married; instead, it decrease the rate of marriage and increase the rate of divorce.
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