Living Together Before Marriage...Right or Wrong?

Lately, I've been thinking about the topic of "living together before marriage." No matter what it comes to mind, it seems like sometimes its wrong and sometime it feel so right. What is right and what is wrong? Well, that really depends on who it is your with, how strongly you feel about the other person and especially where you came from in some cases. Different cultures and ethnicity have different ways of doing things and how things are done. What seem right for one cultures might not seem right for other cultures. So its very difficult to say weather what is right and or wrong.

For example, in the American culture everyone has the right to be with any one they wish to be with and or live with them, and nothing is wrong with that. In other cultures, its wrong to live with a person of opposite sex such as a girlfriend before marriage. Why is it wrong to live together before marriage? Based on a little research of my own with a few cultures that are against it, it has a lot to do reputations and respect. Say for example, if a couple is living together and the female is pregnant, that would considered to be very bad for the both of them, very disrespecting the parents and elders and will ruin not only both of their reputations but both side of the families as a whole. That is why it feel so right for the couple but so wrong at the same time because of cultures.

In my opinion, I think people has the right to be with who they choose to be with weather living together just as boyfriend and girlfriend. Nothing is wrong with that, its actually a good thing because the couple has the advantage of spending a lot of time together over regular traditionally boyfriend/girlfriend couples and its a good way of getting the feel/know each other 24/7 before taking it up to the next step. Weather it will works out or not, that is totally up to them. Everyone has the power to control their own lives, not decided by others or what people tell them to "do" or "not do" just because its bad or good. So overall, there isn't a right or wrong when it comes down to "living together before marriage."