At the beginning of the 20th century, in the Occident, it was the times of arranged marriages or “marriages of interests”? It wasn’t always the union of two fortunes nor was the aim to use the partner as a social lift (arranged marriages happened also in poor families). It was also possible to choose a husband just because he was honest and trustworthy, because he had a good professional situation or because his social milieu matched ours. It was only after the wedding that we had to learn about each other including sexually. Nowadays, at least in the occident, marriage is more often that of love: we meet someone, we love him, we desire him and we want to marry him. We consummate passion when we have just met him. The wrong thing is to believe that passion will last forever without having to work on it. Because, believe it or not, a passion has to be worked on to be able to last: at the beginning, it goes alone without any help, but later on when daily life interferes, children, house problems, professional projects, etc. it needs help to be able to keep on growing.