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You 2.0: When Did Marriage Become So Hard?

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I Marrid My Child Off to You, and That Means You Owe Me Things

Stephanie says the earliest marriages had nothing to do with feelings of two people or their attraction to one another. As you probably know, marriage was much more about economics and acquiring powerful inlaws. Stephane brought up a famous example from his the union between cleopatra of egypt and mark antony of rome. The theme song for that relationship could have been, what love got to do with i that to did it it? There may have been passion, but it was more passion for power than as sexual although sexual probably endered into it too.

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