In the era of the institutional marriage, from the nation’s founding until around 1850, the prevalence of individual farming households meant that the main requirements Americans had for their marriage revolved around things like food production, shelter and protection from violence.

In the era of the companionate marriage, from roughly 1850 until 1

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Marriage may be summarised as the project of doing an utterly remarkable thing: surrendering at points our hungry claims to being loved in order to take on the new and unfamiliar burdens of actually loving.

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