marital bonds
Union between spouses
Marital bonds are the legal and emotional ties that bind married people to each other.
The phrase emphasizes obligation and permanence—marriage as something that holds couples together: The marital bond had weakened over the years.
In legal contexts, it often appears in discussions of divorce or separation, where those bonds are dissolved.
- sacred unionSpiritually blessed joining
- covenantBinding formal pledge
- trustConfidence in another
- ringClosed curve shape
- fidelityLoyalty or exactness
vows · til death · better or worse · commitment · cleave · love · loyalty · companionship · married couple · home · conjugal · honesty · inheritance rights · bed · civil union · monogamy · family structure · wedding ceremony
- familymother, father, parents, siblings, parent
- marriagebride, groom, wedding, husband, wife
- kinship lawconsanguinity, affinity, blood relation, blood relations, next of kin
marital bondssinglehood
Unmarried state
bachelorhood · fling · single life · one-night stand · hookup
marital bondsdivorce
Legal end of matrimony
separation · estrangement · annulment · legal separation · abandonment
marital bondsfreedom
Absence of constraint
independence · autonomy · personal liberty · self-determination