History of marriage when did it all start?

the morden marriage today, where did it originate from?History of marriage when did it all start?
I've heard that Marriage was not sanctioned by our government until the 1800'sHistory of marriage when did it all start?
Adam and Eve.... apple best man and serpent conducted


the service........(not a lot changed really .)
Modern marriage today?


Church marriage with Christianity.





Civil marriage from the very first people who paired for life either with a promise or a non-language grunt of ascent in Neanderthal times.
locates the same-sex marriage of the 1990s in the history of marriage, tracing the institution from the Old Testament Hebrews through medieval Catholic theologians to 19th century Utopians. As she read widely on the subject, Graff found an ever-changing institution that has always been a battleground, with same-sex marriage only the most recent skirmish in the battle. She discovered that in asking, “What is marriage for?” she was actually asking, “What does it mean to be fully human.”





The World spoke with Graff about her book at Radcliffe College’s Schlesinger Library in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she is currently an affiliated scholar.





World: How did your book on marriage come to get written?





EJG: I was writing very basic articles on the subject, including one in Ms. At that time, there was almost no one writing about it. Then a number of gay neoconservative men started writing about marriage as if it were suddenly going to make all gay men settle down and confine their sex lives to one husband and start wearing suits and get jobs as lawyers. They didn’t take into account that men are very different from one another and that marriage certainly has not domesticated promiscuous heterosexual men. They also didn’t take into account that many women, including lesbian feminists, have heated debates about whether the institution of marriage has been good or bad for women.





And by contrast with these writers, there were neoconservative heterosexual men who kept saying same-sex marriage would end civilization. I thought, I have to keep writing! I wrote a series of articles, and the more I wrote, the more I realized I had to know more in order both to answer my questions and enter the debate.





World: Yet, you didn’t write a conventional polemic on the subject. Instead, you put it in a larger context and come at it from various angles.





EJG: I knew same-sex marriage hadn’t even been open for discussion before the 1990s. So why was it open for discussion now? To answer that is to answer the larger question “What is marriage for?” What I came to believe is that marriage and Western society changed pretty dramatically in the mid-19th century.
I think it was in the sixties but I think more traditional values are practiced in the Middle East
Spiritual marriage is a concept that has a long history in Catholicism, and is also known as a ';Josephite marriage'; after the marriage between Joseph and the virgin Mary.[citation needed] A feature of Catholic spiritual marriage, or Josephite marriage, is that the agreement to abstain from sex should be a free mutual decision, rather than resulting from impotence or the views of one party.





In senses beyond spiritual marriage, chastity is a key concept of Church doctrine that demands celibacy of priests, monks, nuns and certain other officials in the Church. The doctrine established a ';spiritual marriage'; of church officials to their church; in order to better serve God, one had to disavow the demands and temptations of traditional marriage. This rule was enforced by Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor, whose marriage to Cunigunde of Luxemburg was also a very famous spiritual marriage.





The ultimate emulation of this piety by the laypersons of the church was for a married couple to practice a ';spiritual marriage'; as well. This practice is thought to be most common in medieval times. [citation needed] At times in Catholic history, a spiritual marriage was considered to be a more devout expression of love than a traditional marriage.[citation needed]





Examples of spiritual marriage in history include Edward the Confessor, who married but refused to consummate his marriage for religious reasons, resulting in the lack of clear heir. [citation needed] Such was the case with the wife of Boleslaus V of Poland. [citation needed]





The Venerable Lois and Ziele Martin professed to enter a spiritual marriage, but consummated a year later - apparently under divine inspiration to start a family. 1. Of their nine children the five who survived to adulthood all became nuns, including Saint Thérèse de Lisieux.





Conversely, spiritual marriages may also be entered later in life, with the renunciation of sexual relations after raising a family to fully dedicate oneself to God. In October 2001 John Paul II beatified the first married couple ever, Luigi and Maria Beltrame Quattrocchi, who lived 1880-1951 and 1880-1965 respectively. Although this couple bore four children, later in life they lived separately and committed to a Josephite marriage in order to better serve God. 1 2.





At times, spiritual marriage assumed a particularly scandalous form, in which a priest or monk would take a nun or laywoman as a wife, but claim to remain celibate, and claim that they slept in the same bed but did not engage in sexual relations as a sign of their own willpower. Most, however, doubted that they were in fact as strong in chastity as they claimed, and such claims were judged heretical.
In the first book of the Bible. Genesis. The first married couple was Adam and Eve.
The biginning of time when God created Adam and Eve. They were the first ones to be married. Check out the book of Genesis in the Bible. You will find some great facts and info in there. Good luck, I hope that my answer helped you.