My boyfriend and I have been together for exactly a year next week, I am turning 22 in May and he is turning 24 in June. I still live at home (with a family of 7) and he lives in his family’s house with his brother. We are both full time college students with part time jobs which means we have limited time to spend with each other, so we have worked out a routine where I stay at his house 2-4 days out of the week. We have talked extensively about our plans for the future; the jobs we want after we graduate, where we want to move together, and eventually marriage in the next couple years. He graduates this spring and I still have another year of school, but we talked about getting our own place sometime in the next year. The catch is that my mother doesn’t think that couples should live together before marriage and strongly disapproves of our plan. Not even for religious reasons or anything - she simply said “couples who live together before marriage have a higher chance of divorce and rarely last long term.”

I guess I’m asking for peoples experiences/thoughts on living with their s/o before marriage. Do you think living together increases the likelihood of breaking up? What are your experiences?