Where were dating and romance created?
What happened to asking the girl across the street to marry you? Or having your parents arrange your marriage? Even in the esteemed Romeo and Juliet they consummated their marriage after only 2 encounters.
>>940031
These things still happen in non-European countries. What happened was Romanticism and people caring about being in love with whom they married.
>>940031
An illusory freedom. When you search for ideals, there is always the desire, no necessity to trade up. But there is always someone better as well as someone worse. We become prisoners of greed, we refuse to "settle," forgetting the whole point of it, that it is better than being alone.
Blame 19th century romanticism (among other things it can be blamed for)
Back in the day falling in love with your spouse was something that came with time.
>>940031
>Where were dating and romance created?
Animal courtship.
>>940354
Also, if you were a commoner, you sometimes just moved in with someone and only married officially if the couple and their families agreed it was working out.
>>940031
>Or having your parents arrange your marriage
More or less "banned" by the Church around 1200.
Of course everyone living south of the Alps and most nobles didn't give a fuck about what the pope said. The common population north of the Alps seems to have followed this "suggestion"
