marital strife
Domestic partnership turmoil
Marital strife is conflict and discord between spouses—the arguments, resentments, and tensions that strain a marriage.
The phrase appears more often in formal or clinical contexts than casual conversation: The couple sought counseling to address their marital strife.
Years of marital strife preceded the divorce.
- divorceLegal end of matrimony
- irreconcilable differencesConflicts that cannot harmonize
- argumentReasoned case or dispute
- heated argumentIntense verbal conflict
- fightingEngaging in physical conflict
bickering · resentment · growing apart · infidelity · affair · cheating · broken vows · separation · trial separation · tension · walking on eggshells · coldness · cold shoulder · silent treatment · silence · betrayal · jealousy · screaming
- relationship problemsaffair, disloyalty, adultery, unfaithfulness, cheating
- marital problemsinfidelity, adultery, cheating, affair, divorce
- marriagebride, groom, wedding, husband, wife
- divorcedivorce court, divorce decree, divorce papers, divorce filing, divorce lawyer
- Balzac themesbourgeoisie, social climbing
- family tragedyfamilicide, filicide, infanticide, matricide, patricide
marital strifemarital bliss
Happiness within wedlock
wedded bliss · marital harmony · domestic harmony · domestic tranquility
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