Obviously if a man was a bastard & happy to live with a miserable, cowed slave, his wife had very little recourse. Laws needed changing.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
But mostly ppl had to get through lives which were hard and they had to do it together & they felt love & loyalty & commitment.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
And this worked out with varying degrees of success & there was community justice & strong expectations of not being a complete arsehole.
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In communities where everyone was very close together, indications that one spouse was not caring for the other wld bring strong disapproval
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Thought: Maybe the "freedom" and lack of direct social contact creates new obsticals for people. A certain frustration. Like an open sea.
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More options = less imperative to make marriage work. I still think that's better on the whole.
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I'm not saying we should limit the freedom. I was thinking that not everybody is able to cope with this. Or at least not as well.
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Replying to @TamaraBrouwer1 @HPluckrose
I was linking this to our sense of self and being able to navigate through your life. When you're having trouble with this, frustration
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Replying to @TamaraBrouwer1 @HPluckrose
Might follow. It's what I often read in extremists posts. Bitterness & frustration. It's a theory. I'm thinking aloud.
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Replying to @TamaraBrouwer1 @HPluckrose
Usually when I do this it doesn't make sense to anybody but me. I was testing it on you.
Carry on
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