21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Married, With Roommates. “From the point of view of couples, the cash collected from a roommate can outweigh the trade-offs as rents in the city continue to rise. The median monthly rent in March in Manhattan was $3,395, up 6.1 percent over the same period in 2014, the second highest level reached in more than seven years, according to the appraiser Jonathan J. Miller in a report for Douglas Elliman. And renters aren’t finding much relief in Brooklyn or Queens, where rents have been increasing for some time.”

Plus:

“If we were living in any other city,” said Dr. Gill, 30, an attending physician at SUNY Downstate, “the situation would not exist: a married couple living with a roommate and his boyfriend. It’s New York City.”

The rent is too damned high.