Like many who'd married in the war, my parents were finding it hard to survive the peace. This wasn't because they had discovered that they didn't love each other once their life together wasn't spiced with constant separations and the threat of death. Far from it. But they hadn't chosen each other so much against the social grain that they were tense, self-conscious, embattled, as though something was supposed to go wrong. Their families didn't like their marriage, nor did the village. Lorna Sage
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After the war, many people turned to traditional ways of doing things. Marriage was no longer about love; it was about marriage. It was about settling down and starting a family. Parents were not allowed to choose their own children-they were limited by families.

Marriage was like war, with the men fighting against the enemy and the women representing their husbands. Women were not allowed to make choices for themselves; they were limited by their husbands and their families. The idea of choice doesn't exist for women in this quote.

Source: Bad Blood

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