Sound solid advice! Black women especially need to heed this. Too many women [specifically Black] have settled for shacking up and/or being baby momma’s when what they really wanted was to be a wife FIRST. You will get pro-cohabitator, naysayers and commitment phobes who will say you are wrong and I say the women in these groups are the same one’s bullshitting themselves about the status and progression of their relationships. I have no desire to “play” wife and doing all of these extras for a man who hasn’t made a commitment to me especially if what I want is MARRIAGE and not to ‘play’ house.