Does past experience increase or reduce a persons resilience to a relationship?In this era, many people fall in and out of relationships from a very young age, as cultures change around the world. The western practice of cohabitation and defacto relationships has slowly seeped into the Asian culture where many of these are seen as a taboo. Students, who study abroad and away from home in fact, are subservient to this belief, and most students have already indulged themselves in cohabiting relationships. The belief system has changed, the ideologies which were imparted to them from young is now influenced by other cultures from all over the world. Whether or not these individuals experience a high level of dissonance, one thing is for sure, the previous relationship will have an influence on the next relationship.