While the concept of ‘marriage’ is very nebulous and ill-defined, if at all, I mean, although human history the concept of marriage has been changed, morphed and turned into various types and often varies wildly per human group, one group may have the concept of marriage being a polygamist one, where one man has multiple spouses and concubines and regarded as a perfectly moral thing to do (Saudi Arabia often comes to mind, but China has this to some extent… but… it’s complicated, IE the spouse knows that their husband is having an affair but don’t much about it…) while another is more monogamist, where its’ often a frowned upon thing for a married individual to have a mistress or another wife (recently the west is this, but it varies wildly, but generally if your spouse finds out you’re having an affair your marriage is pretty much done then and there), but that’s more recent developments, back then, and now, in some ways, marriage wasn’t something people do to show how much they care for the other but rather to either form alliances (in the cases of nobilities) or to gain wealth/trade (everyone else), where people didn’t have a choice over who they marry, and often times women were concerned the leftovers, the dead ends, because the near entirity of human society and culture is patrilineal, or rather, the general rule is the woman takes her husband’s family name, which is way women were traded around so freely, they’re expected to be absorbed into her husband’s family rather then gaining a new addition for her family (I fully expect the same sort of bullshit to happen if humanity was largely matriarchal and matrilineal, because humanity are a flawed species no matter what gender it is).
But, what this manchild is saying… is utter horseshit… espesially nowadays, most people tend to marry for reasons other than money and looks (again, at least in the west), and the general feeling nowadays is you’re adding people to both families and connecting them in some way, of course, it varies per family but that’s the general feeling I get (I live in the south and that’s the mood I get down here when it comes to marriages and my own observations being raised with divorced and remarried parents)