companionate 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.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 13, 2023

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

From Washington Post • Dec. 23, 2019

And what is the idea of romantic companionate marriage, in all its crackpot “till death us do part” absolutism, if not a theory of everything?

From Slate • Nov. 6, 2014

But plenty of Armstrong’s readers would love a companionate marriage that meshed work and life seamlessly, and her separation may dash those dreams.

From Slate • Jan. 25, 2012

Recent "puritanical" criticism of companionate marriage has stimulated interest in a strange pastime, widely practiced among the early inhabitants of New England and known as Bundling.

From Time Magazine Archive