 Marriage matters less legally in many other countries, many other countries. We are way behind. We're a puritanical country. We were founded by puritans who came here, and if a married person was in the community and had left his spouse back home, they sent that person back home. That was the policy to be with their spouse. Spousal separation was considered that dangerous, that a single person could not be tolerated. It was illegal for single people to live alone.