“My husband goes to the house across the hall before going to bed.” as a couple, they invented a different way of living together.

“We have been living on the same floor for twelve years.” Each on one side of the aisle. The arrival of the child has not changed the daily life of 40-year-old Caroline and her partner. “We never mentioned the idea of ​​changing, even when I was pregnant,” she recalls. Today, the whole family life is spent in my apartment, and before going to bed, my husband returns home across the hall. Couples who, like Carolyn and her companion, do not share the same accommodation are still the exception, but in recent years have found themselves in unions living under the same roof. According to a study conducted by INED researchers and published in a book in 2018 Family at a distance, mobility, spaces and family ties, about 3.8 million French people chose not to live with their partner. Meanwhile, the share of couples living under the same roof has declined slightly since the 1980s. According to the research published by INSEE…