My wife and I lived together with my parents for almost four years before we got married. She moved in with us out of necessity after her parents basically threw her out. If she didn't move in with me, she would have been on the street.
Since it was my parents house, the only place we had to keep all of our stuff was "our" room. Having such a small space to keep our combined stuff actually helped us for when we got our own place. We had to try so hard to manage how much stuff we had and where we kept it that it carried over to our house.
I'm going to go with the "trial and error" reasoning because it really does gives people a chance to preview what cohabitation is really like, especially for those people who are living away from their parents for the first time.
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