noun
ADJECTIVE
▪ future , prospective
▪ suitable
▪ former (also ex-husband )
▪ dead , deceased , late
▪ first , second , etc.
▪ new
▪ devoted , good , loving , wonderful
▪ beloved
▪ faithful
▪ cheating , errant ( esp. BrE ), unfaithful
▪ absent , estranged
▪ jealous
▪ abusive , violent
▪ house (= a man who stays at home to care for children, cook, clean, etc. while his partner works)
VERB + HUSBAND
▪ find , meet
▪
That was the day she met her future ~.
▪ marry
▪ be divorced from , be separated from , divorce , leave , walk out on
▪
She suddenly walked out on her ~, leaving him to bring up the children.
▪ betray , cheat on
▪ lose
▪
She lost her ~ to cancer a year ago.
PHRASES
▪ ~ and wife
▪
They lived together as ~ and wife for over thirty years.