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What is the optimal length that a couple should date before moving in?
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Here's the fun answer. Never move in. Have your own place where you can pursue your hobbies and they have theirs. Date for years and years, stress free. No fights about animals, housework.
Bonus: it makes the time you spend around that person genuinely fun, planned, and enjoyable.
I hate that the system generally forces people live together because it's otherwise too damn expensive. I feel like if it wasn't, probably more people would choose to live this way.