Why did they stop being a thing? Did any civilization not practice

>>923801
What, arranged marriages?

>>923809
Yeah, I guess I forgot the topic,

>>923813
It's long death march started when Christianoty and the idea both partners must accept the marrige became a thing and it finally began to fully die as invidualism took over.

>>923801
>>923809
Romanticism

even peasants got married for purely practical/economic reasons until the mid 1800s when people started marrying people that they were already in love with

>>923801
It is still a thing in lebanon

>>923831
And many Asian countries.

>>923825
> much love

>>923834
And a huge part of Africa iirc.

>>923801
>Why did they stop being a thing?
Family alliances do not serve any real purpose anymore, so what's the point?
If you're just looking for a partner, marriage arrangement services are still a thing even in the west, they're called 'dating sites' nowadays.

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>>923801
>mfw parents are good friends with the families of many qt's
>mfw can't talk to women
>mfw no arranged marriages anymore

>>923937
Can't see your face.

>>923801
It's still a thing in Muslim shitholes.

>>923838
Oh not really until fundamentalists in the 20th century even then women divorced or really just didn't do it unless they wanted to.

Before that women were sexually empowered and free to do as she pleased in places like the Mali Empire.
>>923801
In the West Families began to see women as viable workers and people who should be shipped off to loser men who couldn't get a woman any other way.

Though it seems like love marriages happened a lot in Europe.