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French to English translations [Non-PRO] Social Sciences - Social Science, Sociology, Ethics, etc.
French term or phrase:vie de couple
Hi all,
I obviously know exactly what this means (life as part of a couple, married or not). The French term is so concise, whereas everything I come up with in English is clumsy and overly verbose. Anybody got a nice, succinct expression??
Just to pour oil on the fire: you can talk about "leur vie de couple" as the two partners' relationship inside the broader contexte of their "vie de famille" (family life) - the twosome within the family, if you will. Sociological questionnaires do that all the time.
This is in a document about why it is usually the women in relationships who initiate breaking up, separation and divorce. A depressing 11,000 words indeed...
I was actually inferring that the author's rather depressing conclusion may be why people don't get married so much these days ... not intended to be deeply meaningful or anything, I do agree with relationship though as it is the more concise version which Hattie asked for.
Not suire I understand the question or its potential inferences but, yes, I do. If you read the French and mentally translate it as you go along, you find yourself thinking "relationship" at once quite spontaneously. Whence the importance of context - need I say more?
but I would probably say slightly outdated and archaic. *HOWEVER*, IF it is from an old text (which without context is impossible to know), then this is a very worthy suggestion.
Notre modèle explicatif repose sur l’hypothèse selon laquelle, de façon générale, les hommes accorderaient plus d’importance que les femmes aux gratifications sexuelles tandis que les femmes accorderaient plus d’importance que les hommes aux gratifications émotionnelles que leur procure – ou non – leur vie de couple.
D’un côté, un individu insatisfait de la fréquence et de la diversité de la dimension sexuelle de sa vie de couple peut être tenté de cumuler des relations sexuelles conjugales et extraconjugales : ...
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