Don’t Take Marriage Advice from Your Grandmother

Celie Wells
An Idea (by Ingenious Piece)
5 min readNov 15, 2020

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Her reasons for marriage were vastly different from yours.

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In decades past, marriage was a financial necessity for women. Many of our foremothers married to ensure their security and safety in a world that was anti-female at best and physically hostile at worst. The political and economic landscape was significantly different fifty or sixty years ago.

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