 Brake (2010, 2012) defends a radically reformed institution of marriage, justified by reference to the goods created by caring relationships between spouses, but which would allow individuals to de-bundle these goods and spread them across several relationships. Currently, spouses can confer various advantages—including relational advantages—on each other, but the institution of marriage restrict access to these advantages by organizing them around monogamous sexuality. If marriage were to be minimal, that is if people could associate with each other for the sake of forming caring (and not necessarily sexual) relationships, and also to choose the number of partners and the kind of relational goods at the center of their union, this would give them more ample and fair opportunities to form and protect their caring relationships.