Marriage. Don't some of us just wish to have never heard of that word? I'm not one of them. I happen to like that word. How else would I know how to address the institution that has been fucked up of its original intent by...shall we say well meaning assholes?

As I know it, marriage started off as a commitment between two people for the purpose of progressing a family's stand in the society. Imagine that; society came before marriage. So apparently the guys in society who had more than average wealth and wanted to keep it that way invented the legal version of marriage. Of course this is in the Euro-asian sense. Us here in Africa married for the sake of love, life and every reason to do with wealth as well.
Somehow, as the centuries went by and all the average guys wanted to be more than average, the average guys went and started mainstreaming marriage which meant giving it rules and boundaries and mixing it up with the natural marriage that had been experienced before. A natural marriage being the kind where people are drawn to each other to be together for life. Yeah, I believe marriage in its original state was a lifelong relationship. And it was until those ambitious average people went and messed it up.
So, now marriage is just a contract; a paper; a game to some people; a phase of life to most. It's something average people do even if they are well off or heirs to thrones.
But that's modern marriage. Thanks to La Vie Boheme (LVB) philosophy, original marriage does exist. LVB is generally meant to be a life lived without attachment to world's materialism. Yeah, bullshit mostly if you aspire to own stuff; but some people really don't want to own a lot of stuff. Personally, two formal seats for when the parents visit, a bed for sleeping; TV cause I'm a TV-head; a freezer cause I love ice and a shelf cause I love books. And a rack for the clothes. Because LVB is more about doing things that fulfil ones life than filling up the spaces around your life.
Marriage in LVB is about souls and personalities than names and bank accounts. Sure one's name is important; let's not go get married to people you can't even identify from afar by name. The essence however is attraction, emotion and consideration of someone(s) to other people. So it's not surprising to find a Bohemian married to three people who are married to other people.; homosexuals on the same level as heterosexuals and a/non-sexuals left to be because they can simply be. Neither is it surprising to find two people married to each other exclusively. As long as it makes you happy; it's awesome. Which is then the reason why it's not mainstream.
If mainstream becomes happy, then capitalism would fall and we all know how the self-appointed world superpowers would just love that--not. And frankly, it shouldn't be mainstream. Then all the negative, soul-draining demons known as normalcy would be the underdogs and far more appealing and just disdainful.
LVB marriage accepts everyone ready too be in a lifelong relationship; no matter the creed, sex, race, religion and mental state. It's about the love and if concentrated upon enough, love is really all one needs. For motivation that is. Love motivates one to invention, innovation and success. I imagine Thomas Edison and Benjamin Franklin did not merely admire their inventions and discoveries. No one stands in the rain and lightning storm with a kite! because they like it.

That's why I like the word marriage. If it hadn't been for researching this word I would never have known some world history and I would never have come to the knowledge that doing so in a modern 'normal' average setting is a serious case of fuck. Translation; frustratingly hard, disappointing and depressing. By the time someone's done ten months of modern marriage, they are emotionally ravaged and barely alive. Hence, adultery and divorce and messed up kids and in effect, a messed up world.