Is it any easier if you haven't been married? If one partner refuses to engage in the process of separation, whether you are married or not, it's difficult. In some ways you are more protected if you've been married because there are regulations surrounding it. The point I am making is that getting married before you live with the other person is neither here nor there, learning to live with another person is the bit that's difficult. Marriage and divorce are just the legal bits, the living together is what takes work so I don't get why people are saying they should live together first. If Grace wants to get married first, it doesn't really matter because it doesn't change that splitting up is tough, married or not.