live as man and wife

live as man and wife
   to live as a married couple without being married
   It is of course what nearly all married couples do:
    Irene and I lived together as man and wife. (L. Armstrong, 1955 — she was his mistress)
   Of a married couple, not to live as man and wife means that they have ceased to copulate with each other:
    They shared their farmhouse at Bittadon, near Ilfracombe, Devon, but were not living as man and wife. (Daily Telegraph, 24 October 1997)

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