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Originally Posted by troutman
The "institution" of marriage has changed many times, in many places.
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a HUGE factor in the idea was that people only lasted like 30+ years for a large part of organized history.
quite often even only a few centuries ago people had 2-3 marriages due to women dying in childbirth (quite common) and men dying in wars or as sailors etc.
i'm not saying that marriage is now summarily obselete but people should really think aboot it, based on the tradition coming aboot when it wasn't a ticket to 60 years with the same person.