The Globe and Mail reports in its Friday edition that couples living together often split the rent, but if they break up, they face the hardship of possibly carrying that cost alone. The Globe's Mariya Postelnyak writes that Brenda Trinh, 31, moved in with her partner during the pandemic, just before Toronto rents -- and home prices -- skyrocketed. The couple had split $2,000 a month for their one-bedroom apartment. Ms. Trinh is among thousands of Canadians who have delayed finalizing the end of a relationship because they didn't know if they could afford to live on their own. BMO published a survey that found one-third of Canadians feel financial pressure to move in with a partner in the first place. In BMO's survey, nearly two in five divorced or separated Canadians said the financial cost of breaking up kept them together longer than they wanted. Meanwhile, 28 per cent said they had delayed a legal separation or divorce, with 32 per cent of those participants citing the leading cause as concerns about financial costs of the process, and 27 pointing to the cost of affording separate households. Ms. Trinh moved in with her parents briefly before finding a one-bedroom apartment downtown at a monthly cost of $1,950.