marital duty
Conjugal expected behavior
Marital duty refers to the sexual obligations traditionally expected between spouses, particularly a wife's supposed duty to submit to her husband's desires.
The phrase carries an old-fashioned, often religious connotation: She was taught that marital duty meant never refusing her husband.
More broadly, it can mean any responsibility that comes with marriage—financial support, fidelity, household management—though the sexual sense dominates.
- obligationRequired task or commitment
- conjugal rightsSpouse's right to intimacy
- conjugalOf marriage
- intimacyEmotional closeness between people
- bedroomRoom for sleeping
spouse · husband and wife · vows · sacred vow · till death do us part · holy matrimony · fidelity · commitment · consummation · devotion · partnership · husband · wife · loyalty · wedlock · covenant · expectation · submission
- marriagebride, groom, wedding, husband, wife
- sexual ethicssexual morality, sexual ethics, chastity, adultery, human sexuality
- Biblical Marriagebride, husband and wife, bridegroom, groom, wives
- sacred sexualitysacred union, tantric sex, tantra, fertility rites, sex magic
marital dutysingle life
State of being unpartnered
bachelorhood · singlehood · celibacy · spinsterhood · independence
marital dutyone-night stand
Casual sexual encounter
affair · fling · no-strings-attached · hookup · free love
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