When did marriage start becoming a love affair?

Odie: When did marriage start becoming a love affair?
In the past, marriage was a transfer of rights to another person from their parents. When did this become such a romance affair?

Answers and Views:

Answer by Daphne Doggystyle
i don’t know, but you’re pretty handsome. want to come over and show me your red rocket?

Answer by Sara
When happiness started to be included in the equation

Answer by Tim
maybe when people stopped treating their children like cattle.

I’m glad my marriage is a love-affair – a 21 year long, crazy, hot, fantastic, intense, all encompassing, life changing, love affair. Having a marriage be anything else would just suck.

Answer by FOV
I don’t know but I’m glad it did, I wouldn’t be happy being married to someone I didn’t love simply because my parents decided that he was an appropriate husband.