HISTORICALLY INCORRECT CANOODLING

In "Historically Incorrect Canoodling" Stephanie Coontz talks about how a lot of people are saying that people really don't care about marriage, so their sex life and love life are coming apart but on Valentines day it reminds people how romantic people are.

Valentines day was created by the Roman Catholic Church. Younger people later made it into a holiday to "celebrate romantic love and sexual emotions." But no one believed that being in love was a great and glorious thing that should be leading to marriage.

Before Valentine was a holiday, he was a Christian priest in the third century. Legends say that he was executed because he refused to follow the rule against conducting marriages. Back in that day young people ignored the warning about what would happen if they were active with sex and love. 200 years ago people was not conducted to have candlelight dinners or secret meetings. People would get married to get property, political alliance, or working at a farm together.

100 years later the Europeans and the Americans agreed that marriage should only be about love. They also agreed that younger people should choose their own partners. But other people sad that this would only lead to discontent. Marriages can lead to disappointments.

Valentine day is a holiday to celebrate love. And I think love and sex is apart of it. I think marriages wont work if you don't love one another. If you don't love one another your sex life and your love life would fall completely apart unless you try to fix it. But you don't fix, it can lead to divorce, and I think divorce is a painful subject.