Modern marriages vs. old marriages

Old Marriages .vs. Modern Marriages

     Marriages are what unite two people to live their lives together with love, its not a Webster dictionary definition, its not a prank you pull on a couple of friends and its definitely not something that can only happen once in a lifetime. The ways of getting married have changed over the last hundred's of years. Marriages during the Elizabethan Era and marriages today are vastly different from each other. Today, traditions have changed and so did the life after marriages. Marriages changed over the years as it comes to age factor, and life after marriages.

     Marriages changed vastly when it comes to age factors. During the old times, even until the 1900's, the bride and groom were married at a very young age. For example,  the bride was around 14 and the groom was around 18 when getting married. The parents of the bride and the groom made all of the decisions and left  no choice to the groom and the bride. The parents were strict and gave no freedom to  their children. For example in class, Paris and Juliet were getting married as there was no choice to Juliet. Juliet had no freedom to pick her groom and marry him. To add on, Juliet was approximately just 14 years old, marriages back then were just child marriages and this later was to be a problem as the society started to evolve. However, today, marriages don't matter to the person at all. People get married at any age they want just as long as it is consensual. They can marry anyone they want. A woman who is 36 can marry a 25 year-old. An 60 year old can marry a 40 year old. People today have more freedom, whom  they can marry and when they can marry.

     Marriage isn't something that should be taken too lightly, because if you say those two words "i do" then you are in it for the long haul. obviously as a 14 year old, i have know idea what love, let alone marriage is like. However from all the shows and movies, even stories I've heard about marriage from, your relationship will be how you want it to be and how you shape it out to be, at least that is how it is now. back then, it was nothing like it is now. for example, back then, the men had every drop of power that there was to be had in a relationship, they decided the job, house, what money got spent on what, anything you can think of that would involve a decision of both the spouses now would all go to the man's choice. although this is still somewhat present in relationships around the world, depending on you religion or family beliefs, it is mostly frowned upon in modern society. overall, there is/ has been a very large evolution of  relationships, mainly in the sense that there are more rights that protect both people and allow both people in the relationship to make decisions based on what they both believe.