Humans have sought out relationships since the earliest days of Homo sapiens — but getting married? That's something our ancestors didn't have in mind. Marriage as an institution is likely only several thousand years old, according to historical evidence, making it just a small blip on humanity's 300,000-year timeline. And while marriage might seem a time-honored tradition, the idea of people spending their lives together in a legal union only emerged in recent centuries.

History may not repeat itself in this case, but it definitely appears to rhyme: Many of the latest marriage trends, like polyamory , throuples and " trad wives ," were commonplace in the last few hundred years, and the current variations are really just new twists on old ideas. Even so, the notion that you'd put

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