trial marriage
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I’m also assuming this is a one-year trial marriage of the new coaching staff and the existing coach-killing quarterback.
From Chicago Tribune ● Jan. 22, 2015
The idea of trial marriage is nothing new; secular freethinkers have been proposing it for a number of years.
From Time Magazine Archive
Says Dr. Edward Craig Hobbs of Berkeley's Episcopal Church Divinity School of the Pacific: "Something like trial marriage would be vastly superior to our present system, which is marriage, divorce and remarriage."
From Time Magazine Archive
A man whose own marriages had proved something of a trial, he was a staunch advocate of trial marriage.
From Time Magazine Archive
We thought we believed in trial marriage, but we don't—we believe in trial separation!
From Why Marry? by Jesse Lynch Williams
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