What is love and what is marriage?

Love is a strong attachment, closeness and yearning between individuals (mostly people), and it is also a selfless and all-out emotion. Usually it is the contrast between love and desire. Love consists of two parts: love and sex. Love is the soul of love, and sex is an additional attribute of love, so it is not necessary to exist. Love is the root and core of love.

Marriage is a long-term contractual relationship between men and women on the basis of equality and voluntariness. Marriage generally refers to the social phenomenon that men and women of school age are equal and willing to combine in the name of husband and wife in economic life, spiritual material and so on, which should be recognized by medical, ethical, political and civil laws, and work and live together in the name of husband and wife to form a family, forming a social combination or legal constraint of interpersonal kinship.

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Different countries and different historical periods have different expressions. In ancient China, the purpose of marriage has always been to "serve the temple and carry on the family line"; Christian marriage, the purpose of marriage lies in the education of children, mutual support between husband and wife and the satisfaction of sexual requirements; The laws of modern countries have also made various provisions on the purpose of marriage.

Although these "purposes" are complicated, through these superficial purposes, we can find that they have one thing in common, that is, they all emphasize that married men and women must live together. This is not only the requirement of marriage for the subjective psychological state of the parties, but also the ideal level of marriage significance that people have been pursuing.