Used to describe heterosexual couples who choose not to marry based upon their own personal beliefs that there is no need to muck up a good friendship with a marital contract, and choose to live as though married (ie: together and monogamous) but are not recognized as common law.

When your spouse gets something to eat or drink you are entitled to a portion of it.

Watching a show or a movie only because your spouse wants to watch it.

A married woman or man who does not have to work to help his/her family financially survive. He/she may choose to work part-time or full-time but does so from a hobbyist point of view. He/she may enter and leave the workforce on a whim.

Even though a yoga-spouse may or may not be a parent, he/she is a care-free individual who has sufficient time to workout or socialize whenever he/she pleases. Financial burdens are far from his/her purview.

WIFE SWAP is the show in which each mom switches families for 2 weeks. The first week she must abide by that family's rules, and then they next week she switches to her own rules.

TRADING SPOUSES takes place during ONE WEEK ONLY with the theme being, "Is the grass greener on the other side." Each mom then decides how she thinks how the other family should spend $50 grand they are given.

A hard working spouse of a military member, who keeps things safe at the home front where civilian wives would normally Fail.

a term to refer to the girlfriend/boyfriend/spouse of your house-mate, meaning you sort of live with them, and are sort of mates with them, but that your original reason for knowing them was them dating your house-mate.