Living Apart Together

According to the Church, marital love "requires, of its very nature, the unity and indissolubility of the spouses' community of persons, which embraces their entire life," as husband and wife "are called to grow continually in their communion through day-to-day fidelity to their marriage promise of total mutual self-giving."  By contrast, witness the new trend reported in today's New York Times: "living apart together" (LAT), which refers to long-term couples, including married couples, living in separate homes.  The rise in LAT relationships is most evident among older couples who have been divorced previously, and "may be due to a growing unwillingness to compromise, particularly among members of a generation known for their self-involvement."

Rob