The ever clearer consciousness that love can dispense with marriage, yet marriage cannot dispense with love, is already partially recognized by modern society, by the facility of divorce.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.
I'm also interested in the modern suggestion that you can have a combination of love and sex in a marriage - which no previous society has ever believed.
Romantic love came under attack, first from the Freudians and then from the neuroscientists, who said that being in love was a chemical reaction in the brain. Marriage is no longer seen as a lifetime commitment.
Marriage is about love, but it is not first and foremost about love. First and foremost, marriage is about continuity and transmission.
Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course.
Love is often the fruit of marriage.
Marriage is a commitment for life. It is a permanent, lifelong relationship.
Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued.
The institution of marriage, if you look at it over many centuries, has come and gone.
Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.