“Birth, conception and death”
Fourth in a series.
5 min readNov 13, 2021
Let’s talk about romantic love. What does it have in common with birth, conception and death?[1]
Not much, at least not at first…
Stephanie Coontz, a historian, created a stir when her book, Marriage, A History: From Obedience To Intimacy Or How Love Conquered Marriage, came out in 2005.[2] Love has indeed conquered marriage —…