Posted by
cathleen carr on May 26, 2010 in
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Marrying primarily for love is a recent phenomenon. Scholar Stephanie Coontz explains:
For most of history it was inconceivable that people would choose their mates on the basis of something as fragile and irrational as love and then focus all their sexual, intimate, and altruistic desires on the resulting marriage. In fact, many historians, sociologists, and...