So... in my opinion the spousal consent mechanic is very, very antiquated. I think it's a good idea to be able to share consent with another player for various reasons but I think it would be beneficial if the concept of consent shared between players was decoupled from the IC reality of marriage and bonding roses. There are a ton of situations ICly where you might want to be able to designate a person that can jump in for you in a fight that don't involve you being their widdle wuvbug. Your character's willingness to have their soul intertwined with another persons' or be married at all should not influence your ability to access 100% OOC facets of PvP policy.
So I would vote moving this to a completely separate command and mechanic. Put a cooldown of at least a month on setting your designated consent buddy and have it always show up in PROFILE.
The only potential hiccup to this I see is Necromancers. Without getting into too much detail, there are presently extra steps and drawbacks involved in certain Necromancer bondings, and I don't know if this is purely related to the mechanic of bonding being a divine thing ICly or whether this is intended to make sharing consent more difficult. If it's the latter, I don't really have a good suggestion for it, but I will say that I do not believe it should be more difficult for players of Necromancers to share consent with another player, so this should be a moot point.
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