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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It’s about the legal definition. In most jurisdictions there’s no legal difference between “Single” or “In an unmarried relationship”, while there are differences between divorced vs. widowed.
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