By no means. This is not marriage. This is love. No marriage is necessary for such sweet involvements. Marriage is not the happy and voluntary living together of men and women.
Marriage is a club.
That is what marriage is. And anyone can see its endearing influence. Marriage is the privilege conferred by law, which is in the end by force, by which one person holds the person or the property of another against their will. Theoretically each partner by marriage is endowed with claims upon both the person and property of the other. In practice usually it is the person of the wife that the man is after, and the property of the husband that the woman is after.