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* ''Literature/RealMermaids'': The mermaid Michaela never got a legal identity when she came on land to live as a human, so she wasn't able to marry her human boyfriend Dalrymple. Despite that, they've been living together for at least fourteen years (not counting the year when Michaela was PresumedDead) and have a child. Everyone assumes they're married, including their daughter Jade before she learns about her mer ancestry. By the time of ''Real Mermaids Don't Sell Seashells'', Michaela has finally gotten some forged identity documents. She and Dalrymple make their marriage official in the Bahamas.
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* ''Literature/RealMermaids'': The mermaid Michaela never got a legal identity when she came on land to live as a human, so she wasn't able to marry her human boyfriend Dalrymple. Despite that, they've been living together for at least fourteen years (not counting the year when Michaela was PresumedDead) presumed dead) and have a child. Everyone assumes they're married, including their daughter Jade before she learns about her mer ancestry. By the time of ''Real Mermaids Don't Sell Seashells'', Michaela has finally gotten some forged identity documents. She and Dalrymple make their marriage official in the Bahamas.
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* ''Literature/RealMermaids'': The mermaid Michaela never got a legal identity when she came on land to live as a human, so she wasn't able to marry her human boyfriend Dalrymple. Despite that, they've been living together for at least fourteen years (not counting the year when Michaela was PresumedDead) and have a child. Everyone assumes they're married, including their daughter Jade before she learns about her mer ancestry. By the time of ''Real Mermaids Don't Sell Seashells'', Michaela has finally gotten some forged identity documents. She and Dalrymple make their marriage official in the Bahamas.
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* John and Abigail in ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption2''. They're a deeply committed (if somewhat belligerent) couple with a son between them, but their allegiance to the Van der Linde Gang precludes any notion for them to wed legally. The game's epilogue sees them officially get married after they've separated from the gang and settled down on Beecher's Hope.
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* In certain US states such as Texas, common law marriage is legally recognized and has all the same legal rights as formal marriage; the only difference is that a ceremony is not performed.
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* In certain US states such as Texas, common law marriage is legally recognized and has all the same legal rights as formal marriage; the only difference is that a ceremony is not performed. As of 2024 seven states and the District of Columbia recognize common-law marriage, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common-law_marriage_in_the_United_States this page]] from [[Website/{{Wikipedia}} That Other Wiki]] has more info.
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* ''Titans'': In issue #100 of title ''New Titans'', Dick Grayson and Kori'ander try out for marriage licenses, but they are denied by the ObstructiveBureaucrat, who rejects theirs due to Kori'ander being an alien. Offended, Dick then angrily explains he and Kory "have been living together" for years (an in, a co-habitation).
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* In [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5403644/1/Naruto-Asunder Naruto:Asunder]] and it's sequel [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7042941/1/Naruto-Rend Naruto:Rend]], Hinata is exiled from the Hyuga and ends up living with and (then later dating) Naruto. Over time their relationship progresses to the point where they treat it as this trope since they tend to prefer living together, never hide that they are in a relationship, it's shown that in any official setting both are referred to with the last name Uzumaki, Hinata is called Naruto's wife a few times with neither denying the title and when they become caretakers to a child it is treated and processed as them adopting. Naruto does, however, at one point lament that their chaotic lives never gave them the chance to legally get married.
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* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': Both homosexuality and interracial marriages were unlawful in the early 20th century Louisiana, so no legal options were available to Lestat de Lioncourt and Louis de Pointe du Lac to formalize their union. They make do with an [[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E1InThroesOfIncreasingWonder impromptu]] MetaphoricalMarriage, [[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E2AfterThePhantomsOfYourFormerSelf consummate it, and then Louis moves into Lestat's townhouse]] (during TheEdwardianEra, it was typical for a newlywed woman to leave her family home to settle in with her new husband) where they live together like a married couple. Although they're in a committed relationship and acknowledge that they're a family, they never refer to each other as either "husband" or "spouse" in Season 1.
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** The episode "Gem Harvest" reveals that despite the [[TitleCharacter titular character's]] parents living together for many years before eventually having their son, it turns out that Greg and Rose Quartz were never formally married, much to the disgust of Greg's cousin Andy.
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** The episode "Gem Harvest" reveals that despite the [[TitleCharacter titular character's]] Steven's parents living together for many years before eventually having their son, it turns out that Greg and Rose Quartz were never formally married, much to the disgust of Greg's cousin Andy.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{YoungLove|2023}}'': Angela and Stephen live together and have a child, but have hang-ups about the institution of marriage (they get engaged in the season 1 finale, but call the wedding off at the last minute).
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* Religious sects that practice polygamy but live someplace where it's outlawed essentially fall into this, where you have men with a single legal wife and one or more "spirit wives," considered married in their religious community but not legally recognized as such. UsefulNotes/{{Utah}} has a high number of Fundamentalist Mormons who are polygamous (not to be confused with mainline Mormons who banned the practice in 1890), but since the state is one of the handful in the US that still recognizes common law marriage, Utah takes the standard ban against polygamy one step further by making it illegal (as in, a ''criminal offense'') to even ''present'' oneself as having multiple wives. A few of these communities have moved to Mexico, where polygamy is still unrecognized but criminalized.
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* Religious sects that practice polygamy but live someplace where it's outlawed essentially fall into this, where you have men with a single legal wife and one or more "spirit wives," considered married in their religious community but not legally recognized as such. UsefulNotes/{{Utah}} has a high number of Fundamentalist Mormons who are polygamous (not to be confused with mainline Mormons who banned the practice in 1890), but since the state is one of the handful in the US that still recognizes common law marriage, Utah takes the standard ban against polygamy one step further by making it illegal (as in, a ''criminal offense'') to even ''present'' oneself as having multiple wives. A few of these communities have moved to Mexico, where polygamy is still unrecognized but not criminalized.
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* Religious sects that practice polygamy but live someplace where it's outlawed essentially fall into this, where you have men with a single legal wife and one or more "spirit wives," considered married in their religious community but not legally recognized as such. UsefulNotes/{{Utah}} has a high number of Fundamentalist Mormons who are polygamous (not to be confused with mainline Mormons who banned the practice in 1890), but since the state is one of the handful in the US that still recognizes common law marriage, Utah takes the standard ban against polygamy one step further by making it illegal (as in, a ''criminal offense'') to even ''present'' oneself as having multiple wives. A few of these communities have moved to Mexico, where polygamy is still illegal but the ban is not aggressively enforced as long as they keep to themselves.
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* Religious sects that practice polygamy but live someplace where it's outlawed essentially fall into this, where you have men with a single legal wife and one or more "spirit wives," considered married in their religious community but not legally recognized as such. UsefulNotes/{{Utah}} has a high number of Fundamentalist Mormons who are polygamous (not to be confused with mainline Mormons who banned the practice in 1890), but since the state is one of the handful in the US that still recognizes common law marriage, Utah takes the standard ban against polygamy one step further by making it illegal (as in, a ''criminal offense'') to even ''present'' oneself as having multiple wives. A few of these communities have moved to Mexico, where polygamy is still illegal unrecognized but the ban is not aggressively enforced as long as they keep to themselves.criminalized.
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* In France during the ''ancien regime'', there was the concept of a 'secret' marriage: a marriage (typically between people of uneven rank) that was recognized as valid by the Catholic Church (meaning the couple was not committing the sin of fornication when they had sex), but was never registered, and therefore never recognized as valid, by the French government. UsefulNotes/LouisXIV had a secret marriage with his last mistress, Madame de Maintenon, and his son Louis the Grand Dauphin had a secret marriage with his mistress.
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See HappilyMarried. MetaphoricalMarriage represents a wedding-like moment that however is not an official wedding. It may result from a NotReallyMarriedPlot. It may result in a HeroicBastard. For more information, see the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common-law_marriage Wikipedia page]].
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See HappilyMarried. MetaphoricalMarriage represents a wedding-like moment that however is not an official wedding. It may result from a NotReallyMarriedPlot. It may result in a HeroicBastard. For more information, see the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common-law_marriage Wikipedia page]].
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* Trisha Elric and Van Hohenheim in ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' were never married despite having two sons together. [[spoiler: This may have been due to Hohenheim being [[MayflyDecemberRomance immortal and generally refraining from having close relationships with mortals]].]]
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* Trisha Elric and Van Hohenheim in ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' were never married despite having two sons together. [[spoiler: This [[spoiler:This may have been due to Hohenheim being [[MayflyDecemberRomance immortal and generally refraining from having close relationships with mortals]].]]
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* In ''Literature/TheNeapolitanNovels'' almost all the married couples of the protagonists' ended up living with someone else other than their lawful spouse, with said cohabitation lasting far longer than the marriages. [[spoiler: For example, Lila's marriage with Stefano lasts a couple of years, but she goes on living for ''decades'' with Enzo.]]
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* In ''Literature/TheNeapolitanNovels'' almost all the married couples of the protagonists' ended up living with someone else other than their lawful spouse, with said cohabitation lasting far longer than the marriages. [[spoiler: For [[spoiler:For example, Lila's marriage with Stefano lasts a couple of years, but she goes on living for ''decades'' with Enzo.]]
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* The ''Series/GilmoreGirls'' revival reveals that, ten years later, Luke and Lorelai are still together, but still unmarried. After Lorelai reevaluates the relationship, in the final episode [[spoiler: they finally get married]].
* ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'': The series finale, which is set over multiple years, reveals that [[spoiler: this was the case for Ted and Tracy. The two were engaged, but the wedding was postponed after Tracy got pregnant...twice. After being engaged for five years and having two children together, Ted reproposes and they get married just a few days later.]]
* ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'': The series finale, which is set over multiple years, reveals that [[spoiler: this was the case for Ted and Tracy. The two were engaged, but the wedding was postponed after Tracy got pregnant...twice. After being engaged for five years and having two children together, Ted reproposes and they get married just a few days later.]]
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* ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'': The series finale, which is set over multiple years, reveals that[[spoiler: this [[spoiler:this was the case for Ted and Tracy. The two were engaged, but the wedding was postponed after Tracy got pregnant...twice. After being engaged for five years and having two children together, Ted reproposes and they get married just a few days later.]]
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* In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'', this is what happens with your love interests unless you marry Alistair or Anora. With Leiliana, Zevran, and Morrigan, you never officially marry, but you're still together 10 years later during ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition.'' In Morrigan's case, [[spoiler: the two of you are even raising the child you conceived in the first game]].
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* In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'', this is what happens with your love interests unless you marry Alistair or Anora. With Leiliana, Zevran, and Morrigan, you never officially marry, but you're still together 10 years later during ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition.'' In Morrigan's case, [[spoiler: the [[spoiler:the two of you are even raising the child you conceived in the first game]].
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** Ruby and Sapphire have been together for [[EternalLove 5,750 years]], but marriage is a foreign concept to Gems so it never occurred to them to marry. [[spoiler: However, in "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E21TheQuestion The Question]]", Ruby, at Steven's suggestion, proposes to Sapphire to mark their reunion, who accepts, and they are married two episodes later in "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E23Reunited Reunited]]".]]
* Before the start of the series, [[spoiler: Krolia and Keith's father]] from ''WesternAnimation/VoltronLegendaryDefender'' lived together as a couple and had a son together, but had no way of legally marrying on Earth. Due to circumstances parting them they only lived together for a few years, but the two had every intention of living together for the rest of their lives.
* Before the start of the series, [[spoiler: Krolia and Keith's father]] from ''WesternAnimation/VoltronLegendaryDefender'' lived together as a couple and had a son together, but had no way of legally marrying on Earth. Due to circumstances parting them they only lived together for a few years, but the two had every intention of living together for the rest of their lives.
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* Before the start of the series,[[spoiler: Krolia [[spoiler:Krolia and Keith's father]] from ''WesternAnimation/VoltronLegendaryDefender'' lived together as a couple and had a son together, but had no way of legally marrying on Earth. Due to circumstances parting them they only lived together for a few years, but the two had every intention of living together for the rest of their lives.
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