Love marriage
Love marriage describes a marriage that is entered into by the partners of their own free will and only out of love for one another. The contrast is formed by marriage of convenience , for example an arranged marriage , on the one hand, and forced marriage on the other .
history
The love marriage as a rule is historically a recent phenomenon. In 1761, the French writer and philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, in his successful novel Julie or Die neue Heloise, demanded that affection and not duty should form the basis of a life together. This view was adopted from the early Romantic era , for example in the novels Paul and Virginie by Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (1788) and Lucinde by Friedrich Schlegel (1799).
In the period that followed, the romantic ideal of marrying out of love became more and more popular, but the usual search for a partner continued to be based mostly on objective criteria such as wealth, status and origin. From the middle of the 19th century onwards, the bourgeois women's movement increasingly criticized the resulting " care series " as "immoral".
In times of economic insecurity and social upheaval, traditional life models often regain their appeal, as was the case in the Federal Republic of the 1950s. After two world wars and the horrors of National Socialism , people longed for peace, order and tranquility; they gladly fulfilled the roles that the traditional Christian concept of marriage and family provided for men and women: he as a provider, she as a housewife and mother ( see also Golden Age of Marriage , obedience paragraph ).
However, many of the children who grew up during this period rebelled against this understanding of relationship and marriage. The 1968 movement , the second women's movement that followed in the 1970s, and the sexual revolution led to far-reaching social and legal changes: the equality of women and men, the right of wives to work against the will of their husbands, as well more and more women who have made careers themselves. Women became economically more independent and were freed from the pressure of having to look for a “provider”; increasingly, love became the rule as the basis of marriage.
See also
literature
- Niklas Luhmann : love as passion. For coding intimacy. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1982.
