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Originally posted by The Hierophant:
exactly Moiraine.
To be honest I think that property marriage makes alot more sense than the modern-day 'love covenant'. Love is fine, but leave it out of business transactions, which is essentially what marriage is designed to be: a property delegation/link between families. The recent development of love-marriage really has thrown off the efficiency and stability of the marriage institution. A pity really.
Marriage with concubines was/is the way to go. Too bad that the general Western concensus these days sees it as immoral to have a lover(s) as well as a spouse.
Wellard: What exactly is true love anyway? Wait, don't tell me, I'll know it when I feel it right? 
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Hierophant, it is true that until a century ago, marriages were interest-based rather than love-based - but that doesn't mean they were based on the property of one of the members by the other ! They were more based on the sharing of common interests - and the members of the couple were still partners.
In fact, when you read history books, you realize that women in Middle-Age were waaay more free than they were during the 19th century - in the 'old world' anyway - and possibly more free than we are nowadays ...