contrasting single to couple living

If you are doubtful about marrying or settling down with a single partner, or if that has made you feel your individuality might be compromised, there may be advantages of living that you should be aware of.

Couple life does not mean giving up your independence according to many. It means that you have had a chance to live the single life before meeting someone and have then decided that sharing responsibilities would be more advantageous than living on your own.

Here are some points of comparison:

1. Married life allows you a certain sense of calm. The work of the family can be divided between two people who look over common interests. An individual may not reach this sense of calm. Pundits of the single lifestyle have argued that knowing how to live singly can also induce a state of calm.
2. Single life allows a person to go out with friends without having to make any particular choice that the spouse/partner is against. There is a sense of not having to make as many compromises when you are alone. In many couples friendships change as a result of the influence that one partner has over the other.
3. A single lifestyle is often regarded as more adventurous because the person has a chance of making and breaking rules while being only accountable to himself. An adventurous lifestyle can be referred to freer traveling that the individual can do and being less restricted in personal choices.
4. Couple life offers more stability in the form of having someone to cushion stress in case of an emergency. I have seen several single friends change their personalities markedly when faced with life, death issues that would probably have not happened had there been some effective moral support in the picture offered by a spouse or common law partner.
5. Single life allows greater freedom of movement. Living with a partner restricts ones mobility because of impositions that may arise or obligations of having to assist the partner take care of family etc.
6. Single life allows you to drop a relationship without having to be concerned about potentially messy situations arising from couples that separate and have to work out the custody of their children
7. You can participate in your children's lives as a single parent these days so one is not obliged to stay together with a mate to do so. However there are critics who argue that children are better raised when a couple is present probably owing to a more balanced situation when each parent assists the other or when the family work load is divided.

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