Traditionally, marriage has been looked upon as a primary purpose of founding and maintaining a home and family. Fifty years ago, the majority of women were dependent on their husbands to work and support them. Their role in life was to take care of the children, their husbands and maintain the home. Procreation was part of the traditional marriage. This is quite evident in "Be Fruitful and Multiply". The wife was fully aware that when she got married, her role in life was to bear children, take care of her house and please her husband. Her life was based on procreation and there was a purpose to her marriage.

The modern marriage is based on sexual compatibility, love and romance. If the sex goes bad or the romance dies, than the couple can walk away from that marriage. How do you work out whether you are sexually compatible? Well, of course, you try before you buy! You make sure that you have a sufficient number of sexual partners to work out what you like and what you don't like, so that when Mr. or Ms.

People today are expecting too much out of marriage. They are putting a lot of emphasis on the levels of intimacy, emotional support, companionship and sexual satisfaction. Age plays a role too. Younger women expect greater communication, companionship and compatibility with their spouses than older women. The younger women tend to fall in love too easily and fall in love with the idea of love because they place too much importance on romance by idealizing and romanticizing what they believe marriage to be. Younger women have not yet developed their own sense of self worth and therefore, depend on their spouses to fulfill their needs of worthiness as opposed to older women who, in most cases, have a stronger sense of self worth.

Sex was also an integral part of the marriage in "Unbearable Lightness of Being". This was definitely a modern marriage. He liked to have sex, sex and more sex and not necessarily with only his wife. He was always seeking pleasure and could be quite detached from his role as the "loyal" husband. There are similarities in "Unbearable Lightness of Being" and "The Moslem Wife" in that both husbands sought sexual pleasure outside their marriages.

In today's society, there are a lot of outside pressures that contribute to a lot of marriages breaking down. It is now an economic necessity for both spouses to work and as women are moving into the paid labour forc

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