This does not, like a divorce, enable the parties to marry again, but it releases them in other respects from the duties of married life.
"While I was with her", I said, "she told me what a wonderful husband you had always been to her - always, in every way, all your married life." BNC
On a nest of cotton wool, in a little box, my grandmother kept the two wedding rings which had worn thin, then broken, during her married life, because of her handling of corn. BNC