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companionate marriage

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companionate marriage
n.
A marriage in which the partners agree not to have children and may divorce by mutual consent, with neither partner responsible for the financial welfare of the other.
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Hirsch JS and Nathanson CA, "Some traditional methods are more modern than others": rhythm, withdrawal and the changing meanings of gender and sexual intimacy in the Mexican companionate marriage, Culture, Health & Sexuality, 2001, 3(4):413-428.
They "miss more than anything their normal life back home": ... by Hirsch, Jennifer S.; Munoz-Laboy, Miguel; Nyhus, Christina M.; Yount, Kathryn M.; Bauermeister, Jose / Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health
Alternatively, we might read the play's critique of friendship as contributing to the ideological ground-clearing exercise in which discourses of friendship were replaced by those of companionate marriage, although since all the main characters are consistent only in their inconsistency, the future of marriage in the world of the play seems just as gloomy as that of friendship.
A crisis of friendship?: representation and experience in two late ... by Marlow, Christopher / Shakespeare Studies
The fantasy scenario of the instinctual and normative passion of jealousy constructed within the Sickles trial not least, then, effaces the history that forms the very ground of that scenario's possibility--a history of the development of the romantic ideal, companionate marriage, and the isolated nuclear family bound more and more by the voluntary bonds of love and less and less by the often involuntary interests of duty and economics.
From anger to jealousy: explaining domestic homicide in antebellum ... by Keetley, Dawn / Journal of Social Histor
 
 
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