companionate marriage
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“The idea of companionate marriage and love became a part of the calculus of marriage, and Valentine’s Day cards became a part of courtship,” she says.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 13, 2023
Golia: Historians talk about the rise of the modern companionate marriage: the way that marriage—which was formerly a matter of economic exchange—was, in the 20th century, leached of some of that transactional aspect.
From Slate ● May 16, 2021
“Does it have to be through companionate marriage? Do you have to have an emotional connection with this particular person?”
From Washington Post ● Dec. 23, 2019
And what is the idea of romantic companionate marriage, in all its crackpot “till death us do part” absolutism, if not a theory of everything?
From Slate ● Nov. 6, 2014
Lacking these two essentials, companionate marriage must be technically regarded as a form of courtship.
From Time Magazine Archive
