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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Biggest difference--people are smarter and refuse to take the abuse.

Just like there were less divorces back in the day. Didn't mean that women didn't want them[/quote]
Agree.

And not only that, but people had all but the paperwork divorces in the past. From doing genealogy I have seen a few marriages where the couple lived apart but never divorced. And one lived with someone else (claiming to be a widow and his suster in the census) whom she married after the first husband finally died. There was that cliche, "Dad went out for a pack of cigarettes and never came back." People pretended to be widows/widowers or had late in life babies that were their daughters' or neices'.

There were also estrangements among siblings but they didn't use therapy-style language to talk about it. But I know of a couple in my grandparents' families and these were late 19th century/early 20th century people.

People also may have gotten together more but it's probably for the same reason they do today: feelings of obligation or they do want to. [/quote]

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