marital relationship
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3.5
- noun
- /ˈmɛrɪtəl rɪˈleɪʃənˌʃɪp/
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relación marital
- A strong marital relationship is built on trust and open communication between partners.
- parents' marital relationship
- changes in marital relationships
- equality in marital relationships
It was particularly their satisfaction with their marital relationships that was the strongest predictor.
- It was particularly their satisfaction with their marital relationships that was the strongest predictor.
- So Gottman is basically observing how people talk to each other in an intimate relationship, in a marital relationship.
- Families are going to be destroyed, man, like destroyed because you know, like the point over and over again that just destroys marital relationships.
Examples
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We believe that in the case of married international students, the marital relationship may be functioning as a buffer.
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Depressive tendencies may lead a person to view his or her marital relationship in a negative light.
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One woman from New York associated a different style of ceremony with a different kind of marital relationship.
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The important domain of marital relationships may therefore be overlooked at this time.
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Sometimes, it also serves to promote the desire of the wife to end the marital relationship.
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In answering the third question, dealing with equality in marital relationships, the answer is not so obvious.
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Second, changes in the marital relationship were examined in relation to the duration of illness.
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Studies of marital quality among parents of children with cancer indicate that the marital relationship may be affected in different ways.
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To what extent is the marital relationship affected by the child's illness?
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Consequently, parents may feel challenged to transform their parenting role, which in turn may affect their marital relationship.
Academic text (2007)
Synonyms
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1.8
A close emotional or romantic connection between two people
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2.4
A close joining of two things that work well together
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4.1
The state of being married to another person
A legal relationship between two people who are married
Antonyms
How Close
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently derived from combining 'marital' (concerning marriage) with 'relationship' (a bond between partners); a learner who knows both constituents can infer it refers to the relationship between spouses. This follows the straightforward adjective + noun composition pattern found cross-linguistically, so it should be immediately comprehensible to a B1 learner.
Etymology
The phrase marital relationship joins marital (about marriage) and relationship (how people are with each other), so picture two people who are married and the way they live, talk and trust each other. That is why it means 'the relationship between a married couple', often 'husband and wife'.