Assertion: marriage | /r/HasProperty | intense emotional union
Facets:
value: simply
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: Many citizens are increasingly tempted to think that marriage is simply an intense emotional union, whatever sort of interpersonal relationship consenting adults, whether two or 10 in number, want it to be—sexual or platonic, sexually exclusive or open, temporary or permanent.
text: However, if marriage were just intense emotional regard, marital norms would make no sense as a principled matter.
text: If the law taught a falsehood about marriage, it would make it harder for people to live out the norms of marriage because marital norms make no sense, as matters of principle, if marriage is just intense emotional feeling.