The nearest I can come to a tragic, fictional association with gout is in George Eliot's "Middlemarch," where Tertius Lydgate, a doctor who once had ambitions to make great scientific discoveries, ends up trapped in an unhappy marriage, treating the gout of rich old men and even writing a treatise on the subject.
The words will remain, of course, more sacred than ever, but in practice divorced and remarried Catholics will be admitted to communion and their present marriages treated as valid and in need of nurturing.
As president, you have championed equality for gays and lesbians, including the right to have our marriages treated equally under the law by the federal government.
Custom also ritualized much of the text of the ketubah, the Jewish marriage contract, which treated marriage as a union of families and fortunes and fates.
There's always something to fuel it, like questions about whether Julian, Lennon's son from his first marriage, was treated fairly.
Summerscale is graciously evenhanded in her depiction of Isabella, who, despite being vilely neglected in her marriage and treated appallingly during the trial, was also a flawed character.
Although I'm now 81 years old, I hope to live to see the day when every marriage is treated equally.
In community property states, generally all income and property acquired during a partnership or marriage is treated as equally owned by both individuals.
It says something about the romantic comedies coming out of Hollywood that the character Ms. Goodwin plays on the HBO series "Big Love," the youngest wife in a polygamous Mormon marriage, is treated with far more dignity than Gigi.
Another way of institutionalizing relationships between the nationals of different states was epigamia, an arrangement by which the offspring of marriage were treated as citizens of the wife's polis if the husband settled there; and so was the husband.
