Chocoholic wrote:You miss the point entirely. If the authorities enforced the cohabitation laws - which they don't - then people would not come and work here.
Stop seeing things in black and white, when there are gaping grey areas.
I'm simply stating to you lot who jump up and down and go 'it's against the law, you'll get arrested on the spot' etc etc, to stop scaring people. Because it has never happened, and that's a plain and simple fact.They only ever enforce something, if someone causes trouble or is reported by some saddo with a grudge. And that's it.
My opinion has nothing to do with whether I respect the laws or not, which for the most part I do. But I have lived with boyfriends, stayed over at their places and vice versa - any issues? Never.
Contradictions as usual. First it has never happened, a plain a simple fact as known to you. Then it only happens if there is trouble if reported. Which is it??
So if someone listens to your reasoning and by chance should be the unfortunate couple who get arrested, they can quote you and say that they got their information off a forum??
Unmarried people do live together and stay in hotels together, that is a fact. But they also do so knowing the risk that they take. If you are going to tell people that it's OK then at least add that there is a risk involved. It is not a risk-free situation. People get caught under the most silly circumstances. A couple can be in a car accident and the details that they have to provide to the police could reveal their living arrangement; then there's a problem. I read where a woman called the fire department as she had a fire in her kitchen. It came out that she was living with a man without the benefit of marriage. This fact was not ignored. Not every incident is reported in the Gulf News or the National.
Don't be so sure of yourself because you never got caught bed bouncing over the years that you will never be caught. Never say never Chocs.