“Some people don’t like the phrase man and wife” – the campaign for equal civil partnerships
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There are lots of straight couples who don’t want to get married but worry about the financial and legal risks of cohabiting. Extending civil partnerships could be one answer – and the pressure is growing.
I can’t recall when my partner and I agreed we wouldn’t get married. It may have come up in discussions about our home lives: her parents had had an unpleasant divorce when she was young, which rather ruined the romance of marriage; my unmarried parents had had a rather pleasant separation,...
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