Șapte cuvinte despre mariajul tradițional în trecut (2/7)

Our ancestors hoped for in a “traditional marriage” isn’t quite the roses and white picket fence that they believe it to be. Even though the definition of marriage as “an agreement between two people” has never changed, if you take a look into history it seems as though the idea of traditional marriage has.

* The women didn’t have a say. A blissful, traditional marriage is depicted as the husband and wife discussing issues and forming to decisions together for the good of their family. In a „traditional marriage,” this was not so. During American colonial times, William Blackstone stated that the “very existence of a woman is suspended during a marriage” and that she ceased to exist as a person without thought or voice. Basically, once she married, the woman’s job was to obey, cater to, and heed the word of her husband.

* The woman didn’t have any rights...