Okay, here's what I tried to say twice before I accidentally deleted my posts.

In colonial America, marriages were undertaken for a variety of different reasons with different emphases among the differing cultural groups here. The Virginia Anglicans considered marriage a family alliance, intended to improve family status and provide for the orderly transmission of property from the older to the younger generation.

The Puritans of Massachusetts viewed marriage as a contract between two people who were of like minds concerning religion and the idea was to raise a new generation to love and serve God. However, they were aware of the important role of sexual  attraction in the relationship.

In Pennsylvania, the Quakers held that marriage was a long-lasting relationship and the only way to make it work is to be friends with your spouse. Passion was not part of the marriage equation.

Passion was the watchword for the Scotch-Irish settlers of the Appalachians, though, almost to the exclusion of everything else. Marry the person who makes your heart sing and chance the consequences.

I'm sure there must be other reasons why people get married, but this is a pretty  good assortment.

Now if I can just get this darn thing to post before I lose it all.