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
Colorado's Ben B. Lindsey, the famous advocate of "companionate marriage" who died in 1943, spent four decades introducing numerous reforms, such as a Colorado law forbidding the charging of children under 16 with crime.
From Time Magazine Archive
