Abstract
Thesis
 Informal relationships are very popular in modern times. The number of people choosing marriage is slowly decreasing. The author of the article discerns the similarities and differences between cohabitation and marriage. The author puts forward the thesis that it is impossible to assess whether marriage is superior to cohabitation and vice versa.
 Concept
 The author presents the definitions and legal regulations of marriage and cohabitation. Additionally she lists the types of cohabitation and types of marriage.
 Results and conclusion
 In times of "liquid postmodernity" one should accept the coexistence of marriage and cohabitation, without assessing which of these forms is better, more beneficial, richer.
 Originality/Cognitive value
 In the subject literature cohabitation is presented as a short-term relationship, deprived of mutual obligations of partners, based only on sexual attachment and living together. It stands in opposition to marriage, which is as a permanent relationship based on mutual obligations of spouses and a strong emotional bond.
Highlights
The popularity of cohabitation unions can be regarded, on the one hand, as a certain phenomenon, on the other, as a consequence of living in an individualized, highly pluralistic post-modern world
Cohabitation is not a permanent process from the beginning, and what is more - no time frame is deÞned, so you cannot think about it in the context of your whole life, as you usually think about marriage, calling it the basic cell of society (Cudak, 1999) that gives the basis for creating family and is the most important relationship in its structure (Braun-Gaãkowska, 2003)
It is difÞcult to claim consensual relationships that they do not fulÞll at least some of these obligations that characterise marriage, i.e., for example, mutual obligation to help in need or co-responsibility for the fate of the partner (Cudak, 1999)
Summary
The popularity of cohabitation unions can be regarded, on the one hand, as a certain phenomenon, on the other, as a consequence of living in an individualized, highly pluralistic post-modern world. Partners quite often decide to cohabit when they cannot get married for legal reasons (Prusięska, 2007).
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