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Implications of cohabitation for courtship were explored in a two-year study of 231 college dating couples. No differences were found between living together and other "going together" couples in rates of marriage or breakup over the course of the study. Differences were found, however, in reports of satisfaction, intimacy, problems, expectations of marriage, the balance of power, and transition to marriage. Results suggest that cohabitation in college may influence the development of dating relationships, but that it does not pose a threat to the institution of marriage as feared in the popular press.

proportions of both women and men reported that they had disclosed their thoughts and feelings '"fully" to their partners in almost all domains. But women had revealed more than men in several specific areas, including their greatest fiars, and women were more likely to be identified as the more highly disclosing partners. Both men and women in couples with egalitarian sex-role attitudes disclosed more than those in couples with traditional sex-role attitudes. Self-disclosure was strongly related to respondents' reported love for their partners, but not to the power structure of their relationships.