commuter marriage

American  

noun

1. a marriage between spouses who live apart, usually because of the locations of their jobs, and who regularly travel to be together, as on weekends.

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commuter marriage British  

noun

1. a marriage in which the partners live some distance apart most of the time, usually because of separate work commitments

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Example Sentences

The couple will have a commuter marriage: She’s keeping her home in Washington, and he will keep his house in Florida.

From Washington Post • Apr. 27, 2017

Ms. Perillo began teaching in the creative writing program at Southern Illinois University in 1991 and remained until 2000, when she was no longer physically able to continue her commuter marriage.

From New York Times • Oct. 25, 2016

When they married four years ago, they embarked on a unique commuter marriage, as he orbited the earth from Texas and she worked tirelessly on behalf of her constituents in Arizona.

From Time • Dec. 11, 2011

Whitman, after a rocky tenure as chief of the Environmental Protection Agency, said she was leaving because she and her husband were tired of having a "commuter" marriage.

From Time Magazine Archive

One two-year-old child of a commuter marriage, who lives with his father in Yarmouth Port, Mass., has been to the airport so often that he calls all airplanes "Mommy."

From Time Magazine Archive