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Marriage
In the article “The Radical Idea of Marrying for love” Coontz takes her time to describe marriage
as an institution where two people converge. For Coontz, she insists that marriage should be
based on an intense feeling of love and couples should keep the love alive until they die. For
Coontz, she explores the different ways in which different cultures view marriage and love. In
some cultures, they do not marry because of love, but they still get married, and along the way,
they fall in love. For some cultures, they allow polygamy where wives share the same man
socially and sexually. To some cultures, they view love as some weakness to marriage. In some
culture when a couple shows their love openly in public, they are a disgrace (Stephanie). To
some cultures, the word “Love” does not carry any meaning. In America, most couples get
married out of love but in other cultures love is just a bonus.
From the podcast, one gets a different opinion on marriage and love. For social psychologists Eli
Finkel he argues that the expectations of marriage have increased drastically over the past few
decades. Eli asserts that marriage has...