Why Do Women Marry Men They Don’t Love?
I wrote an article about men marrying women they don’t love and their reasoning behind it. I didn’t write this article because I think it’s solely a male phenomenon.
On the contrary, women have been forced to marry men they didn’t love for centuries. They had to do it because the marriage was arranged or demanded, as their families saw them as a burden and financial responsibility to be passed on to a man who was willing to take her off their hands. Sometimes their families even paid a dowry to the groom for assuring a future for their daughter. Nothing was worse than an unmarried woman of a certain age. Or, they got married because they didn’t have any other options.
Even for most of the twentieth century, women didn’t have the same education/career opportunities as men. Because of this, they had to get married to survive. What else would they do? They could stay at home with their families and be a spinster or become one of the rare women who made a life for herself. These women were far from the norm and it took a lot of grit to become a self-made woman. They were also not appreciated…
