Originally Posted by CaliLivChick

If I had married him before moving in together, I wouldn't have known just how much my credit score would have gone down, just how much I would have had to take charge of the finances and treat him like a child when it comes to money, and just how much he actually doesn't want to have any more children. Honesty and full disclosure has to be a two way street, and I didn't know that he wasn't telling me everything. Things would have been a LOT messier had I found this out after we were legally connected, because I'm not willing to settle for a relationship like this, and won't accept it for the rest of my life.