companionate marriage

noun

A marriage in which the partners decide not to have children, and to reserve the right to divorce amicably with mutual consent.

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Meanings

nouncompanionate marriage (plural companionate marriages)

plural companionate marriages

  1. A marriage in which the partners decide not to have children, and to reserve the right to divorce amicably with mutual consent.
  2. social historyanthropologyA conception of marriage where complicity, communication and support between spouses are considered important, rather than purely material questions of inheritance etc.
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