diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 5d5f292..9cf0de4 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ If you want to learn more about Form Objects you can check out [these great arti
 
 ### Why YAAF?
 
-- It is [69 lines long](https://github.com/rootstrap/yaaf/blob/master/lib/yaaf/form.rb#L69). As you can imagine, we did no magic in such a few lines of code, we just leveraged Rails modules in order to provide our form objects with a Rails-like behavior. You can review the code, it's easy to understand.
+- It is [71 lines long](https://github.com/rootstrap/yaaf/blob/master/lib/yaaf/form.rb#L71). As you can imagine, we did no magic in such a few lines of code, we just leveraged Rails modules in order to provide our form objects with a Rails-like behavior. You can review the code, it's easy to understand.
 
 - It provides a similar API to `ActiveModel` models so you can treat them interchangeably.
 
diff --git a/lib/yaaf/form.rb b/lib/yaaf/form.rb
index 18f2843..9cb7a3e 100644
--- a/lib/yaaf/form.rb
+++ b/lib/yaaf/form.rb
@@ -50,6 +50,8 @@ def save_in_transaction(options)
     end
 
     def save_models(options)
+      options.merge!(validate: false)
+
       models.map { |model| model.save!(options) }
     end
 
diff --git a/spec/support/models/user.rb b/spec/support/models/user.rb
index 9702445..dbe94b7 100644
--- a/spec/support/models/user.rb
+++ b/spec/support/models/user.rb
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
 class User < ActiveRecord::Base
   validates :name, presence: true
+
+  validate :custom_validation
+
+  def custom_validation
+    'A validation method used in the specs'
+  end
 end
diff --git a/spec/yaaf/model_validations_spec.rb b/spec/yaaf/model_validations_spec.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..24659fc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spec/yaaf/model_validations_spec.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+# frozen_string_literal: true
+
+RSpec.describe 'Model validations' do
+  let(:form) { WithValidationCallbacksForm.new(args) }
+  let(:email) { 'test@example.com' }
+  let(:name) { 'John' }
+  let(:args) do
+    { email: email, name: name, before_counter: 0, after_counter: 0 }
+  end
+
+  context 'by default' do
+    let(:options) { {} }
+
+    %i[save save!].each do |persistence_method|
+      it "calling #{persistence_method} runs the model validations only once" do
+        expect(form.user).to receive(:custom_validation).once
+
+        form.send(persistence_method, options)
+      end
+    end
+  end
+
+  context 'with validate: false' do
+    let(:options) { { validate: false } }
+
+    %i[save save!].each do |persistence_method|
+      it "calling #{persistence_method} doesn't run model validations" do
+        expect(form.user).not_to receive(:custom_validation)
+
+        form.send(persistence_method, options)
+      end
+    end
+  end
+end