Living Apart Together (Lat) Essay

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Engelsk Semesterprøve Living apart together, as a couple, means that you live apart from the person that you’re in a relationship with. It’s basically a two-home relationship. Outline Text 2, “Being together or not… live apart”, focuses on a lot of the good sides of LAT and that LAT is a very good solution for elderly couples and couples where they have been through a divorce. The text says, that if you want to remarry, it can have bad consequences for the kids the couples have from their previous relationship and therefore, LAT is a good way of living together without having to deal with the other persons personalities and requirements. All the persons who are being interviewed in the article are for LAT, and they think that it’s a good way of living together, especially for the people in LAT-relationships who have kids from the previous relationship. Those families are very vulnerable to any kind of getting hurt again, so LAT is a good solution for them. Text 3, “Living Apart Together – a Modern life”, has very different views on the subject. Text 3 focuses on the bad things of LAT, and it is filled with criticism of being in a relationship by living apart together. The text says that it’s not a good idea of a way of living together because it can cause a lot of different problems. LAT are becoming more and more a norm in a lot of places in the world and experts say, that this could change the dynamics of an entire population. The text also says that you have to live together and continue to try and work it out, because if you don’t, then you’ll get worse at being in a relationship with commitments, compromises and negotiations, just like a marriage. So text 2 is very open and supporting of LAT-relationships, but text 3 is being very negative about LATs and the fact that the amount of these kind of relationships are increasing. Text 3 is a personal
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