I'm not a historian, but I wouldn't be surprised if marriage existed before governments

Modern marriage isn't much more than a financial arrangement. Not tryna say people don’t get married for love, but the fact remains that as an institution, marriage isn’t about love and never has been.

Yes, lets all blame the one guy you’re thinking of that subjected the entire prehistoric population of earth to their concept of marriage. You’re a genius.

Marriage as a legal status originated in religion. Governments are merely adapting what the church has been enforcing for centuries.

It began as a way to "secure" having your own babies. "I take care of all your needs and in exchange you only fuck with me so all your children are mine". That's why cheating wasn't seen as a problem for men but it was for married women.

https://youtu.be/vXpsT3e8UsM?is=f4szbr9-H82I0gYM

Government should have no place in your love life

It was religion. Religion wanted to control sex. Think of the power this gives them. When you can have sex, with who you can have sex, how you have sex... They decided they wanted to control your life through sex (and social life too).

This is the reason why they were/are all so anti gay. Get people having sex all the time, they can't have that! Also abortion. People having sex out of wedlock and not getting "punished" with an unwanted child? Sooo scary for them. Masturbation and pornography also, same thing. They want to get all up in your business. They want to control sex and it's the power that gives them.

Marriage is the church's way of giving you permission to have sex.