eli5: When you are asked to give your relationship status, why are the options all related to marriage? (Single, married, divorced, widowed etc.) Surely the one of the most common answers would in ‘in a relationship’ but not married.
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There’s not any legal definition for what constitutes a relationship when not married. And thus there is no need to distinguish between unmarried truly single, and unmarried but in a relationship.
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