User blog comment:Njalm2/Nanja's Point of View: Shinigami Edition/@comment-1493741-20150503073419/@comment-24384232-20150503183427

Also in the argument for marriage. Marriage out of love is one of the rarest things in human history. Marriage has always been a tool to bind families together, secure alliances and quite frankly merge financial assets. Entire people have been wiped out because they were from different "clans" or "groups", but by binding two groups together through marriage, you likewise bind the families. Wars have been fought and ended precisely because of this. And I ask you, what IS marriage in our modern world?

Quite frankly, its the binding of your assets with another person that is legally recognized by the state. Why else do we have marriage liscences? Or why divorces get ugly because of the dispute of money and material possessions? Thats because at the root of it, that is what marriage is about. You can add the notions of love everlasting, but the fact remains that marriage in our country offers a number of legal boons to the married couple they otherwise would not have, as such its an insentive.

For beings who live hundreds of years, marriage would undoubtably be about the acquisition of territory, finances and other political agenda's.