> But after that year, they decided to get back together and get married almost immediately without seeing what it would be like to live with one another.
Keep in mind that at the time your parents would have tied the knot, pre-marital cohabitation was statistically a predictor of increased likelihood of divorce. [1]
[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/22/movein-before-marri...