You’ve found yourself partnered up with the very embodiment of perfection, so why on earth wouldn’t you marry them?
You may be far from ready.
Marriage used to happen when you’d hit certain financial and social milestones: when you had a home to your name, a set of qualifications on the mantelpiece and a few cows and a parcel of land in your possession.
But when, under the influence of Romantic ideology, this grew to seem altogether too mercenary and calculating, the focus shifted to emotions.
It came to be thought important to feel the right way. That was the true sign of a good union.
And the right feelings included the sense that the other… Read the full story