Hi, I sometimes feel lonely because I am not in any matrimony or wedlock.
I'm also not married. It can be hard to find the right person to make such a commitment.
I agree, but in some cultures, marriage is recommended and unmarried folks are frowned upon!
Oh my. Can you tell me anything else about marriage in other cultures?
Well, across cultures marriage may be influenced by socially determined rules, prescriptive marriage rules, parental choice and other factors!
I wonder about the history of marriage and when it became such an important part of life.
only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses."
Individuals may marry for several reasons, including legal, social, libidinal, emotional, financial, spiritual, and religious purposes. Whom they marry may be influenced by gender, socially determined rules of incest, prescriptive marriage rules, parental choice and individual desire. In some areas of the world, arranged marriage, child marriage, polygamy, and sometimes forced marriage, may be practiced as a cultural tradition. Conversely, such practices may be outlawed and penalized
companion in the house with me. I have gone a wooing to several gentlemen, but have not succeeded with any one of them. I feel that it is not good for man to be alone, and [I] should not be astonished to find myself married to some old maid who can nurse me when I am sick, provide good dinners for me when I am well, and not expect from me any very ardent or romantic affection." After King died in 1853 Buchanan described him as "among the best