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'Living Apart Together' is an in-depth look at a new way of being a couple and 'doing family' - living apart together (LAT) - in which committed couples maintain separate residences and finances. In Bowman's own 2016 national survey, 9% of respondents reported maintaining committed relationships while living apart, typically spending the weekend together, socialising together, taking vacations together, and looking after one another in illness, but maintaining financial independence. The term LAT stems from Europe, where this manner of coupledom has been extensively studied; however, it has gone virtually unnoticed in the United States. This book aims to remedy this oversight by presenting original research derived from both randomized surveys and qualitative interviews.

Commuter marriage --- Long-distance relationships --- Couples --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Alimony termination upon cohabitation. --- Alternative lifestyles. --- Caregiving among the elderly. --- Caregiving. --- Cohabitation and the law. --- Cohabitation. --- Commuter marriage. --- Family law. --- Family. --- Gay couples. --- Gay sexuality. --- Intra-couple economics. --- Law reform. --- Legal treatment of LATs. --- Living apart together. --- New family forms. --- Purposes of family law. --- Sex and aging. --- Unmarried couples and palimony. --- Unmarried couples. --- Women and intimate relationships.