companionate marriage.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

And very few people are going to give up the idea of companionate marriage completely.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bigotry and Opposition to Same-Sex Marriage] Reference

For example, the idea of companionate marriage acted as a hedge against the Roissys of the world, if you will.    From Wordnik.com.  [WordPress.com News] Reference

The ideal of companionate marriage was very home-centred.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-08-01] Reference

In the companionate marriage, people marry for love and friendship.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jane Minogue: Omnigamy, anyone?] Reference

So my two-career companionate marriage — of traveling tag-team parents — was ending.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Being a Bad Mother] Reference

A companionate marriage is in prospect because husband and wife began their relationship as friends.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shakespeare]

The goal of the Paradigm is successful, loving, mutually faithful, and companionate marriages and families.    From Wordnik.com.  [William K. Black: Why the Ferocity of Attacks on the Bridge Builders?] Reference

One involved a modest extension of the concept of companionate marriage to include a period of cohabitation prior to matrimony.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 1965–83] Reference

A pair of men is inherently less likely to form a companionate marriage-type relationship than a man and a woman italics added.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » “Gay Marriage” or “Same-Sex Marriage”?] Reference

The evolving nature of the increasingly popular companionate marriage, as well as the rights of women, is certainly at issue here.    From Wordnik.com.  [Talking About Virtue: Paisiello's 'Nina,' Paër's 'Agnese,' and the Sentimental Ethos] Reference

Her only allegiances were to the companionate she shared with Kaino and to this ship; she could and would leave either when she saw fit.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Stars Are Also Fire]

Doesn't that sound like companionate love beyond compare?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slate Magazine] Reference

He was big on the modern notion of the "companionate marriage.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Maggie's Farm] Reference

If passion is lost over time, it may change into companionate love.    From Wordnik.com.  [angeles' playground] Reference

I'm very companionate and like to have someone with me to do things.    From Wordnik.com.  [love and hope and sex and dreams] Reference

This companionate third purpose has, these days, entirely stolen the show.    From Wordnik.com.  [Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk] Reference

I'd like to talk about the secular case for companionate heterosexual monogamy.    From Wordnik.com.  [GetReligion] Reference

Between couples "a nonverbal sign of companionate love is the shoulder embrace.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Ottawa Sun] Reference

Turnus, on you, on you alone depends Our laft jelief; companionate your friends.    From Wordnik.com.  [The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical] Reference

Despite the free-love and companionate-marriage which is practised in Russia, they love children.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Five Year Plan—Russia's Challenge to Capitalism] Reference

Maybe I am too companionate, because as David wrote the people in KY can just through another log on the fire.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Soldier's Perspective] Reference

The love ideally shared between family members is a form of companionate love, as is the love between close friends who have a.    From Wordnik.com.  [angeles' playground] Reference

But they aged into progressive companionate marriages, where husband and wife seamlessly share professional and domestic roles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slate Magazine] Reference

The Book of Common Prayer marks a new status for marriage in a post-medieval domestically-based society, founded on companionate bliss.    From Wordnik.com.  [Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk] Reference

Link Civilization was not built on companionate marriage.    From Wordnik.com.  [hth_the_first: oh, and also, OSC? fuck you.] Reference

"I enjoyed a brief but rather hectic companionate-marriage with her, about twenty years ago.    From Wordnik.com.  [Last Enemy] Reference

"trial marriage" or "companionate marriage," whereby young people could live together without getting married.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hindu - Front Page] Reference

V and with a friendly and companionate concern to re - cover and eftablifh them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The practical expositor, or, An exposition of the New Testament, in the form of a paraphrase : with occasional notes... and serious recollections] Reference

The fawning cats companionate his cafe.    From Wordnik.com.  [The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical] Reference

A companionate relationship with their spouses?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Valve] Reference