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About one-in-four adults (23%) have only cohabited, 15% have only married and 26% have done neither. Young adults ? those ages 18 to 29 ? are almost twice as likely to have cohabited as they are to have married (44% vs. 23%), while the largest share (48%) have done neither.

A cohabitation agreement is a legal document between unmarried couples who are living together. It sets out arrangements for finances, property and children while you're living together and if you split up, become ill or die. You can make an agreement at any time. It's good to do it before you move in together.

Younger adults are particularly likely to see cohabitation as a path to a successful marriage: 63% of adults younger than 30 say couples who live together before marriage have a better chance at a successful marriage, compared with 52% of those ages 30 to 49, 42% of those 50 to 64 and 37% of those 65 and older.

Living together with someone is also sometimes called 'cohabitation'. A cohabiting couple is a couple that lives together in an intimate and committed relationship, who are not married to each other and not in a civil partnership. Cohabiting couples can be opposite-sex or same-sex.

The proportion of people who live in a couple that are cohabiting (not in a marriage or civil partnership) has increased from 20.6% in 2011 to 24.3% in 2021, an increase across all age groups aged under 85 years.

Massachusetts does not allow common law marriage, so no matter how long a couple lives together, cohabitation won't ever change into a marriage without performing a wedding ceremony. However, Massachusetts does allow cohabitation agreements.