serial monogamy
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- The practice of having a succession of (especially short) monogamous relationships with different people.
- 1972, Carl R. Rogers, Becoming Partners: Marriage and its Alternatives, page 11:
- Living together without marriage, [...], serial monogamy (with one divorce after another), [...] — these are all gropings toward some new form of man-woman relationship for the future.
- 1993, Susan Moore, Doreen Rosenthal, Sexuality in Adolescence, page 127:
- For some adolescents, serial monogamy — or a succession of 'permanent' relationships — is the norm, confirming earlier findings with American adolescents reported by Sorensen (1973).
- 2008 March 1, “Sex and sensibility”, in The Economist:
- If serial monogamy is the norm, even if individuals have many partners over time, the virus is trapped within relationships and gets around slowly.
- 2011 March 30, The Guardian:
- Pawley was, of course, not the last man to suffer from Taylor's serial monogamy, with the Hollywood star marrying eight times in her life.
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practice of having successive marital relationships
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