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companionate marriage

noun as in open marriage

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“The idea of companionate marriage and love became a part of the calculus of marriage, and Valentine’s Day cards became a part of courtship,” she says.

Golia: Historians talk about the rise of the modern companionate marriage: the way that marriage—which was formerly a matter of economic exchange—was, in the 20th century, leached of some of that transactional aspect.

From Slate

For all Emmanuel’s assurances — that Haiti belongs to the Black man, that “none of us will ever triumph … until we are completely free,” that he and Libertie will have a “companionate marriage,” because “it is only logical that a man and wife should share friendship and charity and understanding” — the reality of her future looks quite different.

What she sacrificed—the chance at a companionate marriage to a man who genuinely respects her, a meaningful career, a clean conscience—may only seem too high a price to pay to people who didn’t grow up pledging allegiance to Marshal Tito.

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“Does it have to be through companionate marriage? Do you have to have an emotional connection with this particular person?”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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