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Narrator: Today's entry is "broken marriage" — a noun phrase, pronounced /ˈbrəʊkən ˈmærɪdʒ/, with the stress on "broken".
Narrator: Broken marriage means a marital relationship suffering from serious, often irreparable difficulty, often irreparable difficulty.
Narrator: In plain English, this phrase describes a marriage significantly damaged by conflict or breakdown.
Narrator: It combines "broken", damaged, with "marriage", the formal marital relationship between partners.
Narrator: "Save a broken marriage" describes attempting counselling or reconciliation to repair marital difficulty.
Narrator: It differs from "unhappy marriage" by severity — broken marriage implies more serious, often terminal breakdown.
Narrator: "Effects of a broken marriage" describes the emotional impact marital breakdown has on a family.
Narrator: Counselling literature and family discussion both frequently rely on "broken marriage".
Narrator: So remember: broken marriage marks serious marital breakdown — a relationship significantly damaged, often approaching separation or divorce.
Speaker A: "Save a broken marriage" always sounds so determined. Does that phrase really always imply the relationship can still be repaired?
Speaker B: Genuinely, not always, honestly! BROKEN MARRIAGE combines "broken" with "marriage", and while "save" implies hope, the phrase itself simply describes serious damage, without guaranteeing repair is possible. Sometimes it precedes divorce instead.
Speaker A: So it really does describe the damage itself, leaving the outcome genuinely open either way?
Speaker B: Exactly — that open outcome is precisely why broken marriage doesn't guarantee repair or ending!
Speaker A: Example sentences?
Speaker B: "They sought counselling for their broken marriage"; "a broken marriage affected the whole family"; "she wrote about her broken marriage" — counselling decision, family impact, and personal memoir.
Speaker A: Common mistakes?
Speaker B: No hyphen as a noun phrase — "broken marriage"; often paired with "save", "repair", or "end" verbs!
Speaker A: Close relatives?
Speaker B: "Failing marriage" the near-identical cousin, "troubled relationship" the general twin, "marital breakdown" the formal alternative. Broken marriage keeps its serious, emotionally weighty charm!
Speaker B: Let's use "broken marriage" in AI prompts — useful for counselling-app session-note templates and legal-services divorce-intake forms.
Speaker A: So broken marriage in a prompt could help template a counselling session, or design a legal-services divorce-intake form?
Speaker B: Right. For a counselling app's session-note template, you'd write:
Prompt: Create a session-note template for couples addressing a broken marriage, capturing key concerns from both partners.
Speaker A: Good — what about a legal-services form asking about the circumstances behind a client's broken marriage?
Speaker B: The legal-intake prompt:
Prompt: Design an intake form asking sensitively about the broken marriage, keeping the tone respectful and non-judgmental.
Speaker A: A wellness-app offering resources for someone processing the end of a broken marriage?
Speaker B: The wellness-app prompt:
Prompt: Offer supportive resources for someone processing the end of a broken marriage, avoiding assumptions about blame.
Speaker A: One more?
Speaker B: The financial-planning prompt:
Prompt: Help a client plan finances after a broken marriage, separating shared assets into a clear, itemised list.
Broken marriage — meaning in Arabic & definition More B courses GL Dictionary