spousal relationship

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spousal relationship - the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce); "a long and happy marriage"; "God bless this union"marriage, matrimony, wedlock, unionlaw, jurisprudence - the collection of rules imposed by authority; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order"marital status - the condition of being married or unmarriedbigamy - having two spouses at the same timecommon-law marriage - a marriage relationship created by agreement and cohabitation rather than by ceremonyendogamy, inmarriage, intermarriage - marriage within one's own tribe or group as required by custom or lawexogamy, intermarriage - marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or lawmarriage of convenience - a marriage for expediency rather than lovemisalliance - an unsuitable alliance (especially with regard to marriage)monandry - the state of having only one husband at a timemonogamousness, monogamy - having only one spouse at a timeopen marriage - a marriage in which each partner is free to enter into extraneous sexual relationships without guilt or jealousy from the othercuckoldom - the state of a husband whose wife has committed adulterypolygamy - having more than one spouse at a timesigeh - a Shiite tradition of temporary marriage permitted in Iran that allows a couple to specify the terms of their relationship; can last from a few minutes to 99 years; "sigeh legally wraps premarital sex in an Islamic cloak"