"I wouldn't want to get married, civil partnership encompasses everything I want," he said, adding that it remained a positive move.
"Sophie was the hod carrier — I just walked around with a clipboard," says David, one half of the married architectural partnership, Liddicoat and Goldhill, about building their first home, a small and boxy black-brick house in Camden.
Legal marital status has been asked to respondents directly; answer categories were: married, registered partnership, widowed, divorced, separated, and never married.
Of the total sample, 87.9% (n=349) were currently in a relationship (ie, boyfriend or girlfriend, married, registered partnership or cohabiting), of which the majority were heterosexual (n=394; 98.7%).
34 35 We categorised marital/partnered status as living with a partner (ie, married, registered partnership or cohabitation) or living alone (ie, living without a partner, including widows/widowers).
Of the total sample, 85.1% (n=484) were currently in a relationship (ie, boyfriend or girlfriend, married, registered partnership or cohabiting), of which the majority were heterosexual relationships (n=566, 98.8%).
Demographic variables included gender, age, partnership status (single, married, in a partnership), citizenship, mother tongue and education.
After the war he married Betty Walters, a partnership that lasted 61 years.
Four decades ago Edgar Kaplan and Betty Sheinwold married, and their partnership seemed to suggest the celebrated Kaplan-Sheinwold system, which he had invented with Alfred Sheinwold, Betty's previous husband.
Not many straight people would trade our chance to get married for domestic partnership or civil union.
In relation to marital status, we distinguished between "living without a partner" (e.g., single, divorced, widowed) or "living with a partner" (e.g., partnership, married).
