In Emma Goldman's passage "Marriage and Love" on page 396 it talks about 'how about marriage and love and have nothing to do with each other'. I agree with this statement because you can be in love with someone and not be married and you can also be married and not be in love with them. For example, you can see this in things such as forced marriages where they are married because the family has arranged it and they are not necessarily in love with their significant other. I am not saying that they will not ever love this person they may not at first but like Emma Goldman states 'it is rare one does hear if miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage'. I also agree that marriage has a lot to do with the 'economic arrangement, an insurance pact'. For example, how men or women marry another for things that they may not have such as money or they could be getting married because their significant other is perhaps in the military, where there a member makes more almost or nearly double when he/she is married and their significant other also makes money as well.
A lot of the time I feel that the word love is often mis-used and people just say it because they think it's something the other person wants to hear. I, myself and I am sure some of you can also agree that most of use have been in or is in one of these relationships now. The type where in the end the guy tells you he loves you and that he is going to marry you in the future, then a month later so or he breaks up with you for someone else. I guess in a girl's point of view marriage is something we dream about and when a guy tells me that it just gets your hopes up so high and then they are shattered, making you think is love, or marriage even worth it...
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