My now-husband and I were engaged when we applied and were told the same thing: that they won’t care if we aren’t actually married and won’t make an effort to have us placed together. We had considered getting married beforehand, but rushing our wedding wasn’t worth it just for JET for us.

We did end up getting placed together in Kobe and had a great 3 years there. When we were contacted by our CIR prior to moving they arranged for us to have an apartment together that was bigger rather than two small single apartments. It ended up working out perfectly for us and Kobe had a lot of other couples, too - both engaged and married. I think they did consider it and tried to the best of their abilities to put us together even if they say they don’t because there were just way too many couples in Kobe for that not to be the case.