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conscious uncoupling en · NOUN

Etymology

Coined by the author Katherine Woodward Thomas, popularised by Gwyneth Paltrow, who used the phrase to describe her divorce.

Meanings

1. (countable, humorous, neologism, uncountable, usually) Divorce or similar separation.
   • Most “conscious uncouplings” after 50 are initiated by financially stable women who are still working or have enough money to set out solo. 2015, Lois Joy Johnson, The Woman's Wakeup: How to Shake Up Your Looks, Life, and Love After 50, Running Press, →ISBN:
   • As product selling and solution selling split off from accelerator selling (call it “conscious uncoupling” if you like), there are two major implications. 2016, Lou Schachter, Rick Cheatham, Selling Vision: The X-XY-Y Formula for Driving Results by Selling Change, McGraw Hill Professional, →ISBN, page 109:
   • Few organisations have an enterprise relationship management strategy, few have documented processes and can verbalise how relationships are created and maintained. Even fewer can describe how relationships are exited in a way that all parties remain whole through 'conscious uncoupling'. 2016, Andrew Humphries, Richard Gibbs, Enterprise Relationship Management: A Paradigm For Alliance Success, Routledge, →ISBN:

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