Stephanie Coontz The Radical Idea of Marrying for Love

In the essay, Stephanie Coontz's, "a radical idea to marry for love," she studied the history of marriage with different cultures, explaining how time transforms us from the need to keep pace with the radical community for the good reputation to become a person who carries happiness for yourself and their partners. As a result, a way that allows them happy and successful year for the rest of their lives.

Throughout history, men and women had to endure an unhappy life of the marriage to survive. In other words, marriage was more connected with society, and not loves your partner. For example, "... too much love between husband and wife is considered destructive, because it encourages the couple at the outlet of a wider network of dependence that makes society work." ... "Too much intimacy between husband and wife, a weakened commitment to the believer to God" (Coontz, 252). In many cultures today still feel affection and love are not necessary for marriage, but can now be seen as a bonus.

In modern Western, "a calm affection" was the closest feeling of love. Today it is more nostalgia for the "happily ever after" stories. For us, love most of all bring us closer to becoming one and the feeling of a powerful, making it our most thought about desire. Today, we believe that "couples should be best friends, sharing their innermost feelings and secrets. They need to express affection openly, but to speak frankly about the issues. And they should be sexually faithful to each other" (Coontz, 254). In order to express emotion for someone to be happy was the main goal.

Each culture defines the idea of a happy marriage in a different way, does this mean for the status or love. Nevertheless, sexual need ...