It is not we as individuals, then, who must bend uncomfortably around the institution of marriage; rather, it is the institution of marriage that has to bend uncomfortably around us. Because "they" {the powers-that-be} have never been entirely able to stop "us" {two people" from connecting our lives together and creating a secret world of our own. And so "they" eventually have no choice but to legally permit "us' to marry, in some shape or form, no matter how restrictive their ordinances may appear. The government hops along behind its people, struggling to keep up, desperately and belatedly {and often ineffectually and even comically} creating rules and mores around something we were always going to do anyhow, like it or not.
( Elizabeth Gilbert )
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