marital relations
Between husband and wife
Marital relations is a formal or euphemistic term for sexual intercourse between spouses.
It appears most often in legal, religious, or clinical contexts: The couple had ceased marital relations years before the divorce.
The phrase can also refer more broadly to the overall dynamic between married partners.
- touchPerceiving through physical contact
- passionIntense emotional drive
- sexualityErotic nature and preferences
- desireIntense wanting
- bedFurniture for slumber
love · quality time · date night · skin · tenderness · fidelity · empathy · compromise · communication · conjugal · intimacy · forgiveness · growing apart · conflict resolution · prenuptial agreement · partnership · parenting · kiss
- marriagebride, groom, wedding, husband, wife
- religious sexualitychastity, modesty, virginity, sexual purity, sexual ethics
- intimacykiss, hug, embrace, closeness, snuggling
- sacred sexualitysacred union, tantric sex, tantra, fertility rites, sex magic
marital relationssinglehood
Unmarried state
bachelorhood · celibacy · dating · casual dating · spinsterhood
marital relationsestrangement
Emotional separation between people
separation · marital discord · marital breakdown · divorce · alienation
marital relationsextramarital affairs
Romantic involvement beyond marriage
adultery · infidelity · cheating · fornication · premarital sex
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