domestic partners
Live-in significant others
Domestic partners are two people who live together in a committed relationship without being married.
The term arose as legal and administrative language to extend benefits—health insurance, hospital visitation, inheritance rights—to unmarried couples, particularly same-sex couples before marriage equality: The company offers benefits to employees and their domestic partners.
Now used for any cohabiting couple in a marriage-like arrangement.
- cohabitantsPeople sharing a residence
- living togetherSharing a dwelling
- beneficiariesThose who receive advantages
- intimatesClosest friends or implies
- long-term relationshipExtended romantic commitment
same-sex couple · civil union · live-in · companionship · chosen family · comfort · emergency contact · home · confidantes · relationship · pairing · family · household · inheritance rights · home life · common-law marriage · joint tenancy · spousal benefits
- familymother, father, parents, siblings, parent
- couplescouple, married couple, married couples, pair, twosome
- householdshousehold, nuclear family, residents, married couple, occupants
- partnersassociates, collaborators, colleagues, co-workers, coworkers
- kinshipmother, father, sister, brother, children
- extended householdgrandparents, in-laws, aunts, uncles, cousins
domestic partnersstrangers
People unknown to you
singles · bachelors · living alone · bachelorettes · ex-partners
domestic partnersstrangers
People unknown to you
acquaintances · friends · roommates · colleagues · housemates
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