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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
Here's a line from the book worth pondering:
Why do more or less intelligent people go on honeymoons, anyway? I have yet to find a couple who enjoyed theirs.
My wife and I chose to forgo a honeymoon and instead go directly to setting up our home after reading about how honeymoons can add to the trauma that results from the major life change of marriage. After all this time, I can't begin to give the source for that article; but in terms of real life consequences, I suppose that fact that we've been married now for over 37 years should count for something.
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Wouldn't that depend on what you put into the idea of a honeymoon? Among my friends and family I guess what could sum it up, is that it's an extra nice holiday, scheduled around the wedding. So no extra stress, just a nice trip together to an exotic destination. But this is of course a more modern definition, from people who are used to travelling to foreign countries and and have lived together in a relationship well before marriage already. It would have been much different in the time Betty MacDonald married.