life partner

And in Moominland Midwinter Jansson immortalised her life-partner Tuulikki as wise, life-embracing Too-ticky.

She is loved and trusted as her husband's life-partner, and exerts no inconsiderable influence upon him.

And Mary, being a woman, and no more of a saint than is her life-partner, will also be exasperated.

Pons took to himself the only life-partner permitted to him among his kind—an old man and a fellow-musician.