Living apart together

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What are the secrets of a successful lat couple? Thanks for asking.

Now the idea might seem inconceivable to some, but these days more and more people are choosing to be in LAT relationships.

The LAT part of the term stands for Living Alone Together, which means that LAT couples are in a committed romantic relationship, but each person maintains their own private life and space.

Just how common is that? Well, back in 2011, a research team began a multi-method study looking into how prominent lat couples were in the UK.

They went on to publish their findings in a research briefing in 2013, showing that 9% of adults in the UK are in a lat couple.

That was backed up by a study published in January 2020 by Emeritus Professor Simon Duncan from the University of Bradford.

His study suggested that as many as 25% of adults in relationships had a LAT arrangement, which equated to 9% of all adults.

But not somebody that they're going to live with.

Vicki Larson wrote a great book called Living Apart Together.

And it's about being in a relationship where you're together, but you live in separate homes.

And that works for a lot of women.

Women don't wanna live with a man.

They are doing the LAT, the living apart together.

They live in separate houses or there's-- I've seen accounts of women openly, publicly, I don't understand, but sharing openly their marriage situation and that they chose to move into an apartment and still date their husbands and sharing all this stuff.

I don't understand that.