Non-divorced

Non-divorced

Beside status of single, married, separated and divorced, the „family status“ of „Non-divorced“ we be can use in „half-joke“ mode, when we want to state that our marriage is practically over but legally still valid.

We are „nondivorced“ due to time necessary to resolve this matter or other obstacles that prevent us to claim singlehood. It can be just a current or event permanent state of the matter.

In other words - we don‘t wanna lie about our legally valid marriage but we also feel the need to accentuate the absence of real couplehood and life partnership.

Other languages might claim this family status as:

Nerazveden/a in Serbian
Nondivorziato/a in Italian
Nichtgeschieden in German

Are you single or married?
-I am non-divorced.

How come?
-A long story. it would cost me a fortune to actually legally divorce, but my husband/wife and I are non living together for over a year.

Are you married?
-I am nondivorced. We wait until the children grow up, but we are just partners in parentship, living under same roof, but not an actual couple.

-So, you have an open relationship/open marriage?
-No, two of us have no romantical/sexual connection with each other, whatsoever. We are just parents to our kids. We wait that they grow up, before we separate.

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