Living Apart Together Analysis

Living apart together, also known as L.A.T, is a trend amongst couples. They choose to live apart, despite being in a serious relationship or even being married. The trend, mainly started in Europe, is getting very popular.

In text 2, “Home Alone Together” by Jill Brooke, David Popenoe, the co-director of the National Marriage Project at Rutgers University, claims that many older couples choose to live apart together to avoid complicated inheritance issues. David Popenoe can see how L.A.T relationships makes sense for the elderly and for the divorced couples with children, but worries that for others it might harm the ability to form long-term relationships.

Dr. Scott Haltzmann, clinical assistant professor of psychiatry at Brown University and author of The Secrets of Happily Married Men, agrees with David Popenoe. Suggesting that L.A.T decreases the level of intimacy he claims that a long-term relationship that doesn’t involve living together assumes that other people’s needs are an imposition.

Jeanette Lofas, clinical social worker and founder of the Stepfamily Foundation, says it can be very hard to blend families and definitely advocates

However, he really enjoys waking up every morning and seeing his spouse. In text 3 Gary Picariello writes in quite an informal style, using easily understandable words. It’s not a very structured text, it seems as if he just put his thoughts down. He tries to relate more to the readers by his use of humour, saying: “No wonder the pope is stressing”. He uses modern expressions such as “check out these statistics”, that you wouldn’t really see that in a serious text. Asking questions such as “So what’s the deal” he includes the reader in a way that you wouldn’t in a text that wasn’t a personal