marital obligations

"So my holiday from marital obligations and daily routine becomes a quest.

If the marriage took place, they were to be set free if her husband was negligent in his basic marital obligations.

Professional ambitions, romantic relationships and marital obligations under stress in contemporary San Francisco.

In addition, if a husband cannot provide his wife with basic marital obligations, such as shelter or maintenance, a woman may be granted khula.

This is proper for the purpose of fulfilling the "Onah" Mitzvah-commandment, the husband's marital obligations.

He understood that yielding to his wife would officially reinitiate his marital obligations, and compromise his secret life.

A premarital agreement can allay some of these concerns, but such agreements are increasingly being unraveled by courts and cannot override all marital obligations.

It contrasted sharply, she added, with the mandatory civil marriages in Bulgaria, at which officials read from the civil code about couples' marital obligations.

After a protracted process, her husband freed her from her marital obligations, and she was able to emerge from hiding.

He had seen little of al-Jamal since the beginning of the expedition for he had had marital obligations elsewhere.

She'd been married nearly twenty years, and since the very night of the honeymoon, had resigned herself to her marital obligations (carried out once a month, in total darkness).

They sent an appeal to Pope Clement III in Rome to ask if the she could be released from her promise and continue her marital obligations.

Lee agrees to marry her, with ranch hand Jace as his best man, but assures Annie that their marriage will be in name only, with no other marital obligations.

They were more respected by their extramarital companions, both placing one another's family obligations ahead of the relationship and planning their own liaisons or social engagements around the lovers' marital obligations.

When it has not been possible for the parties to live together and to discharge their marital obligations towards each other for more than one year, we see no reason to continue the agony of the parties for another two months."

Ellen lived in New York while he remained in Cambridge, and there he wrote The Jilts, which reflected his own concern that marital obligations might thwart an artistic career and force him into the business world.