For thousands of years, marriage was a couple of social status, familial relationships and financial reliability. Then the Enlightenment ideal of marrying just for love arrived, with a corresponding shift in expectations. Couples were required to find a true love, a companion and a lover who may meet the psychological and physical needs of their family. Sadly, these new goals created a wide range of frustration, while marriages typically fell short and had been doomed to end in divorce.
Today, marriage is a desired institution, and investigate shows that married people tend to be happier...