Cohabitation was the term used to describe the period between 1986 and 1988 when a socialist French president, François Mitterrand, and a centre-right coalition headed by prime minister Jacques Chirac, together formed the government of France The...

Cohabitation is the term used to describe the situation in French politics that occurs when the President and the government represent opposing parties. This phenomenon occurs because there are separate elections for the President and the...

Affinity • Attachment • Bonding • Casual • Cohabitation • Compersion • Concubinage • Courtship • Divorce • Dower, dowry and bride price • Friendship • Family • Husband • Infatuation • Intimacy • Jealousy • Limerence •...

In North Dakota, a man and woman who live together without being married are committing a sex crime. It's right there in the law, a state senator says, alongside the prohibitions against adultery, incest and indecent exposure.Tracy Potter, a freshman Democrat from Bismarck, is asking...

Don Polries and Helen Vetter don't look like outlaws. She's 82 and nearly blind, and he's an 87-year-old World War II veteran whose only brush with the law was a traffic ticket or two, decades ago.But the retired farmers _ and thousands like them _...

In the summer of 1978, my mother accidentally flooded her boss’s apartment, and got sued. It’s a long story. The important part is that the young lawyer/aspiring rock star she hired to represent her later became her husband— my father. They settled the case out...

“If we’re not going to move in together, maybe we should just move on,” I told Owen one Sunday night during our second year together, after one too many vodka tonics. For weeks, my feelings of frustration and sadness mounted each time we wrapped up...

Essay compares the attitudes, values and entrance into cohabitation versus marital unions.