conscious uncoupling
conscious uncoupling noun: divorce or similar separation.
Noun
conscious uncoupling (countable and uncountable, plural conscious uncouplings)
- Divorce or similar separation.
- Most “conscious uncouplings” after 50 are initiated by financially stable women who are still working or have enough money to set out solo.2015, Lois Joy Johnson, The Woman's Wakeup: How to Shake Up Your Looks, Life, and Love After 50, Running Press, →ISBN
- Few organisations have an enterprise relationship management strategy, few have documented processes and can verbalise how relationships are created and maintained. Even fewer can describe how relationships are exited in a way that all parties remain whole through 'conscious uncoupling'.2016, Andrew Humphries, Richard Gibbs, Enterprise Relationship Management: A Paradigm For Alliance Success, Routledge, →ISBN
Forms of conscious uncoupling
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Origin of conscious uncoupling
Coined by the author Katherine Woodward Thomas, popularised by Gwyneth Paltrow, who used the phrase to describe her divorce.
Questions about conscious uncoupling
- What does conscious uncoupling mean?
- Conscious uncoupling means divorce or similar separation.
- What part of speech is conscious uncoupling?
- Conscious uncoupling is a noun.
- What is the plural of conscious uncoupling?
- The plural of conscious uncoupling is conscious uncouplings.
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