She might have married, but circumstances had not permitted that: for sixteen years, she had instead been visited by a man she believed would one day free himself from a wife he was indifferent to.
Her new husband says: "We have had to get married under oppressive circumstances.
Yet there's almost nothing here about how these slaves lived: whom and how they married, under what circumstances their families were broken up, how and what they ate, whom and how they worshiped, what they sang and how they spoke.
And in those circumstances, getting married at the age of 17, if you get pregnant, may very well appear to be the clearly preferable option".
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"There are all these immigration experiences where people have got to get married, under very different circumstances than they would have done back home, and the insecurities that come without knowing the reality, the truth," she said.
In such circumstances, staying married may reflect an inability to pursue what may be in the best interests of oneself, one's partner, and even one's children.
Both states allow young teens to marry in some circumstances.
A son and a daughter from two working-class families, one English, one Scottish, meet in unexceptional circumstances, marry and make their own life together.
Both she and her gentleman friend Felipe — a Brazilian gem trader she met in Bali, who provided her with passion and adoration and a tidy romantic ending for "Eat, Pray, Love" — had been "so badly gutted" by their divorces that they "had sworn with all our hearts to never, ever, under any circumstances, marry".
