forsaking all others
Vow of fidelity
Forsaking all others is a phrase from traditional wedding vows, pledging exclusive romantic and sexual commitment to one's spouse.
The promise encompasses emotional fidelity as well as physical: Do you take this woman, forsaking all others, as long as you both shall live?
Outside marriage contexts, it can describe any singular devotion that excludes alternatives.
- wedding vowsSpoken marriage commitments
- vowsSolemn binding promises
- weddingMarriage rite and feast
- holy matrimonySacred rite of spousal union
- fidelityLoyalty or exactness
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- wedding vowsI do, I will, to have and to hold, till death do us part, forever
forsaking all othersopen relationship
Consensual romantic nonexclusivity
open marriage · polyamory · non-monogamy · ethical non-monogamy · polygamy
forsaking all othersinfidelity
Disloyalty to a partner
adultery · cheating · unfaithfulness · extramarital affair · philandering
forsaking all otherskeeping options open
Preserving future choices
casual dating · friends with benefits · no strings attached · noncommittal · playing around
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