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The pleasures of being a boring old unmarried couple

Not for us the hot-headed transience of married folk...

16 August 2014

9:00 AM

16 August 2014

9:00 AM

The problem with not getting married, I am increasingly realising, is that you cannot get divorced. There is no mechanism for separating when you are simply co-romancing with someone. The builder boyfriend and I are not even cohabiting. We simply pop round to each other’s houses as the fancy takes us.

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