When should you move in with your partner? Relationship expert Jake Maddock says six to nine months

A divisive relationship expert has revealed when he believes this is the best time to move in with a partner.

Jake Maddock, from Brisbane, said in a TikTok video that around six to nine months was the ideal time to live with someone you are dating.

He said that while you may want to move in together sooner, a six-month duration is an important milestone because it’s “difficult” to achieve.

He also explained why he thinks a man should never move into a woman’s house.

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‘When are we going to live together? The best time is around six to nine months,’ he replied.

“It must be hard to make it to six months, you’d rather move in together.”

Not all viewers in the comments agreed with the advice, while others shared their own experiences of moving in with a partner and what time frame worked or didn’t work for them.

“I don’t agree with this, I think it’s on your own time!” a woman replied.

“He wanted to move in at six months. I left him. He left me 10 days later,” another recalled.

“We did that at five months, we wanted to wait six months, but we just couldn’t wait any longer. We were done in two to three months,” said a third.

“My boyfriend (at the time he is now my husband) has asked me to move in with him literally four or five months into dating. Best ever,’ said a fourth.

This isn’t the first time Jake has been asked when couples should move in together and while his answer remained the same, he previously added that you should only live together “if the relationship is a 10 out of 10.”

He also said that couples should find a new home together, otherwise the wife will have to move to the husband’s house.

This turns out to be so that the woman at home can ‘take over the man’, without ‘giving up’ her own space.

Jake has made a name for himself online with his often controversial dating advice and has a total of 588,000 followers on his social media channels.

He revealed how often couples should have sex – and says his statistics have been proven by “science.”

The former builder says you should be intimate with your partner two to three times a week because it provides “mental and physical health benefits” and “hormonal regulation.”

‘There’s a lot of science behind this. Studies have shown that it is very good for women to have an orgasm three times a week. It’s good for their mental health, their physical health, it’s good for their body, Jake said in a TikTok video.

‘Good for men’s hormonal regulation, mental health, physical health. Lots of good things are happening.

‘[Having sex] two to three times a week will also help you bond.’

He said that over time, as couples become comfortable with each other, they begin to develop “lazy” habits by having sex less often.

“People in long-term relationships seem to get lazy and go ‘once a week is fine,’ ‘once a month is fine,’ they just get diaper and diaper, and you drift apart,” he said.

“So two to three times a week really keep people on track.”

A study published in Archives of Sexual Behavior revealed married couples have sex 51 times a year — about once a week.

But others argue that there is no “magic number” when it comes to how often you and your partner are intimate.

Couples therapist and sexologist Isiah McKimmie told House of Wellbeing the number varies and is based on life and circumstances.

“There is no set amount of sex that makes for a great relationship, and it’s normal for two partners to have different ideas about how much sex they want,” Isiah said.

“It’s important that couples work together to find sexual pleasure that works for both of them.”