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What does the term              < Marriage > mean?

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What does the term              < Marriage > mean?

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It is a legally accepted relationship between 2 people in which they both live together in the official legal ceremony.

Marriage can often be referred to a matrimony or a wedlock.

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It is referred as the marriage ceremony usually with its accompanying festivities.

The party is called as wedding reception or wedding party.

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What does the term              < Marriage of convenience > mean?

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What does the term              < Marriage of convenience > mean?

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It is often called as < fake marriage > or < sham
marriage >.

This type of marriage usually occurs when the partners have married, not because they love each other, but in order to get the right to live & work legally in the partner's country. This is commonly observed in developed countries.

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What does the term              < Forced marriage > mean?

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What does the term              < Forced marriage > mean?

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It is type of a marriage where there is no consent or agreement of one or either of the people getting married.

It is similar to < Arranged marriage > where parents of both partners agreed to marry their children.

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What does the term              < Polygamy > mean?

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What does the term              < Polygamy > mean?

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It is rare practice where a partner, usually a man, is married to multiple spouses at the same time

This is map taken from Wikipedia.

1.  Light Blue = Polygamy is legal

2.  Green = Polygamy is only legal for Muslims.

3.  Dark Blue =Polygamy is illegal, but practice is not criminalized

4.  Black = Polygamy is illegal and practice criminalied.

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What is < Sugar Baby >,        < Sugar Momma > &             < Sugar Daddy >?

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What is < Sugar Baby >,        < Sugar Momma > &             < Sugar Daddy >?

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He or she is normally a rich older man or woman who buys expensive gifts for a younger  man or woman for her company or sexual favours.
Normally, we could also observe many sugar daddies are getting married to their sugar babies.

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Spouse is a formal term to qualify both the husband and wife. It is often found in questionnaires & application forms

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He or she is the person's closest living blood relative to the person.
Normally, when someone undergoes a surgery / operation or join a new company, this question is asked on paper as a record, just in case of emergency, they pulled up the record and contact the person mentioned on it.

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In many cultures, a divorce is the dissolution of marriage or make the marriage null and void  through a legal process.

Also, commonly known as
< annulment >

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It is a common practice in many parts of Europe where, there is an arrangement where 2 individuals are not married but live together under the same roof.

1st Obs:-

Do not confuse with < concubine > or < concubinage >.

A concubine = is normally referred to a woman who, lives and has sex with a man she is not married to and has a lower social rank than his wife.
The relationship is called a
concubinage.

2nd Obs:-
We should also confuse this term < Adultery > or commonly known as < extra-marital affair > where, a single act of sexual intercourse is generally sufficient to constitute adultery. Now, it is a more long-term sexual relationship, we refer to it as an affair.

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In case of a dissolution in a marriage, the husband has to pay a pension to his ex-wife and also, in case of children exist inside that marriage.  How do you called this pension?

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In case of a dissolution in a marriage, the husband has to pay a pension to his ex-wife and also, in case of children exist inside that marriage.  How do you called this pension?

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It normally has multiple ways of calling itself.  We can say
< Alimony, maintenance, spousal support > which is a legal bounded obligation on a person to provide financial support to their spouse before or after marital separation or divorce.

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It is minimum required age that someone is permitted to have sexual intercourse with someone.

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What is the prerequisite document for any marriage abroad?

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What is the prerequisite document for any marriage abroad?

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We are required a < Certificate of Celibacy > or < Certificate of no impediment >.

It is required when getting married abroad.

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What are the common types of Matrimonial Regimes?

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What are the common types of Matrimonial Regimes?

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1.   MARRIAGE of  legal community of goods and property.
2.  MARRIAGE of legal separation of goods.
3.  MARRIAGE of settlement embodied in a notarial deed.

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How do you call the place where the marriage is officialised on paper?

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How do you call the place where the marriage is officialised on paper?

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We call it a < Civil Status Office > or < Civil Registry Office >.

The person working in there registering the marriage is called a < Civil Status Officer >.

Afterwards, the partners are no more single.  They are declared officially married and their civil status change married.

< Civil Status Office > is different to a < Registry Office > or
< Registrar >.  The latter is focused on registering all other types of deeds other than a marriage.

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It is the legal status that ensures to opposite-sex or same-sex couples specified rights and responsibilities of married couples.

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Expressions related to Love & Relationships

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Expressions related to Love & Relationships

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1.  Have a crush on (someone) - to have strong but temporary feelings of love for someone

2.  Have a thing for (someone) - to be attracted to someone, to be interested in someone

3.  Hit it off - to have a really good relationship with someone from the first time you meet them (not just romantically)

4.  Get dumped - when someone finishes a relationship with you in a bad way

5.  Break up (with someone) / split up - to end a relationship

6. Break (someone’s) heart - to hurt someone emotionally, usually because you end a

relationship with them.

7.  Ask for (someone’s) hand in marriage - to ask someone to marry you

8.  Get hitched - to get married

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Situation #1:
Ifyou have a husband or a wife,

==> You can say "I am married" (expressing a present fact)

==> You can also say to talk about the number of years in a marriage - "I have been married for 4 years".

This means that I have had a husband/wife for 10 years. (We use the present perfect tense to show an action happened in the past and have been continuing until the moment of speaking.)

*** Please do not say < I was married > because you currently have a husband.

Another common mistake that you see; "I am getting married ".  This shows that you are not married and you are going to do so.

Situation #2:

Let's say that you currently have no husband or wife, you divorced.

==>  You can say "I was married" = I had a husband/wife. (expressing a fact in the past but not at the moment of speaking)

Instead, you can say "I had been married for 3 years before we divorced "= I had had a husband/wife for 3 years before we divorced. (an action happened in the past and had been progressing to a point of time also in the past.)

***  You can not say "I am married" because it is against the fact of you already divorced.

***  You can not say "I am getting married" to talk about the past.

==>  But you may say "I got married" because you possibly did have a wedding in the past before you divorced.

Situation #3:

Let's say that you are going to have a wedding next month.

==>  You can say "I am getting married next month"

You can say "I got married last year " but we don't know you may have divorced or you are still in a happy marriage.

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Let's talk a bit about the relationship from dating to the wedding day!

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Let's talk a bit about the relationship from dating to the wedding day!

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The terms used accompanied with quick Portuguese Translation.

1.  Bridal dress – vestido de noiva.
2.  bridal shower – chá de cozinha

3.  bride – noiva

4.  bachelor party / stag party – despedida de solteiro
5.  best man - padrinho
6.  bouquets - buquê

7.   bridesmaid – madrinha
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1.  Engagement party – festa de noivado

2.  Engagement ring – anel de noivado

3. fiancé - noivo

4. fiancée - noiva
5. flower girl – dama de honra

6.  groom - noivo

7.  groomsman - padrinho

8.  just married / newly weds – recém casados
9.  maid of honor – madrinha
10.  wedding reception / wedding party – recepção
11.  tuxedo - smoking
12. veil - véu

13.  wedding - cerimônia de casamento

14.  wedding gown – vestido de noiva

15.  wedding march - marcha nupcial
16.  wedding ring - aliança de casamento

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1. Mr.right / Mrs. right = perfect match, perfect man or woman

2. blind date = 1st time will see the person, don't know what's the person like * never met
before.

3. Heart rules your rule = decision comes from the heart * not logical.

4. Dolled up = dressed gorgeously / beautifully dressed like a doll.

5. Smitten = completely fall in love at a person at the 1st time or sight

6. Get along like a house on fire = when you really enjoy someone's company

7. Going steady = date or meet regularly and serious

8. Head over heels in love = completely in love, the person is everything for you.

9. On the rocks = relation is going unpleasant, rough and sad.

10. Iron out = to sort out with someone after problems.
11. Kiss and make up = forget everything and come back to the normal life. (let bygones be
bygones)

12. Pop the question = propose marriage to someone.

13. Courtship = dating time / period before marriage.

14. Walk down the aisle = get married in a church.

15.  Flirt with someone / hit on someone = you do things and say things that show you are interested in that

person romantically.

16.  Love at first sight = when you fall in love with a person in the first moment you see or meet him or her.

17.  Stand someone up =

When you agree to go on a date with the person, but then you don’t go & you don’t call or give any explanation. It’s considered rude to do this.

18.  Engaged =  when a person
has agreed to marry someone.

19.  Fiancé / Fiancée = a man who is engaged is called a fiancé, and a woman is called a fiancée.

20.  Honeymoon = when a recently-married husband and wife travel or take some vacation time to be together.

21.