People ask, occasionally, and there is no good word for it.
They are not married. They were, and the decree is four pages about a sofa, and neither of them has ever suggested undoing it. They have lived in the same house in Horsforth for thirteen years. He calls her his wife when he cannot be bothered to explain and she has never corrected him and has never used the word herself.
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