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[quote=Anonymous]My great grandmother was married at 16 back in the 1910s.  Turns out the guy was abusive and beat her almost to death multiple times.  Back then she couldn't get a divorce and at first everyone told her to stay with him.  But when he started beating their daughter too, my great grandmother booked it, ran away (with her daughter) and eventually met my great grandfather.  At the time she couldn't get a divorce not even with my great grandfather being a wealthy man.  He basically paid off her first husband to leave them alone but she couldn't get a divorce.  Had my great granddad not paid him off her probably could have forced her, at least their daughter, back.

They only were able to get married after her first husband died which was decades later, after 6 kids together. They were only married for a couple years before my great granddad died. My grandmother and her siblings did actually face some stigma from being illegitimate.

So yes marriage has changed, but it's for the better.[/quote]

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