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 The fatal sisters; a weak sister;
 If my aunt had been a man, she’d have been my uncle; my
giddy/sainted aunt!;
 To come the uncle over smb; to cry uncle; to talk to smb like a
Dutch uncle;
 A bread-and-cheese marriage; marriage goes by contrasts;
marriage is a lottery; marriage makes or mars a man; a marriage
of convenience; marriages are made in heaven; to defile/violate
the marriage-bed.

4.Match the verbs with the nouns or noun combinations

1. to pursue a. a career
2. to share b. the deterioration of the
American family
3. to move out of or c. the workforce
4. to establish d. college
5. to force e. financial problems
6. to be forced out into f. career or educational goals
7. to indicate g. resources
8. to cause h. commitments to one another
over a period of time
9. to attend i. companionship, love
10. to start j. their parent’s home
11. to have k. a change in the traditional
perception of the nuclear
family
l. responsibility for decisions,
values and goals
m. their own households

5.Fill in the gaps.

a. union d. caring g. assigned j. with
b. consulting e. purpose h. separate k. birth
c. sacred bond f. technique i. part l. to support

1. In the old days the responsibilities ___1___ to the man and
woman were quite ___2___. The man’s place was outside the
home, earning a living ___3___the physical needs of his family.

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