unmarrying

“The recently announced change in Census Bureau procedures, to recognize same-sex couples as married when they identify themselves that way, won't require much change on the Bureau's part -- they have been "unmarrying" these couples (in various ways) to comply with the Defense of Marriage Act. They have the data.”

Philip N. Cohen: Are You Really Married? (Hundreds of Thousands of Gay Couples Say They Are)

“In the context of the passage of California's Proposition 8, banning gay marriage and potentially unmarrying thousands of couples, look at Obama's speech on race, and construct a similar speech appropriate to the topic of marriage equality -- something that a California leader or potential leader could give that would appeal to people on both sides of the issue and motivate them to be kind and forgiving toward one another.”

Discourse.net: Snapshot

“I should have laughed at it just as much as an unmarrying man would.”

The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton

“They had been married so easily; there must be an easy way of unmarrying.”

We Can't Have Everything

“When I went to London, I had no idea of the matrimonial market; I should have laughed at it just as much as an unmarrying man would.”

The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton

“But with unmarrying women the case is different, and unmarried for the most part they remain, for man is often so weak-kneed a creature in matters of the heart, that he refrains from pursuing where an unsympathetic attitude discourages pursuit.”

The Nebuly Coat

“A new court was established last year, and under the new statute, twenty and twenty-one Vic., cap. eighty-five, unmarrying is as easy as marrying.”

The Woodlanders

“I have tried them all so many times, I know all the polygamous words and all the monogamous ones, and all the unmarrying ones, -- the whole lot that have no mates, -- as soon as I hear their names called.”

Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works

“There’s always been something smarmy about Mr. Agassi -- that shit-eating grin, those blown kisses, that worn-on-his-sleeve religion -- and yet he never fails to be compelling, whether he’s marrying then quickly unmarrying Brooke Shields, cavorting on the beach with Steffi Graf, hanging enigmatically with that mysterious trainer-guru, or coming back to tennis’ heights after a long season in the crapper, losing to journeymen in the qualifying rounds.”

U.S. Open 2000: Giant Ladies Take Queens