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“Why Love Is the Newest Thing About Marriage”
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Title: Marriage, a History
Author: Stephanie Coontz
Category: Culture & Society, Love, Dating & Relationships
What if marrying for love is the strangest thing humans have ever done? Sam and Sophie open this episode with that question, and it doesn't get less disorienting from there.
The episode walks through Stephanie Coontz's long sweep: marriage as a property and political arrangement in ancient Greece…
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