December 2011
23 posts
“My first love… My husband… My heartbreak…. My pain. Feels so easy now. Here…...”
– Enlightened
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The term Boston marriage was used by Henry James in The Bostonians (1886), a novel involving a long-term co-habiting relationship between two unmarried women, “New Women”.[1] The use of the term is thought to have persisted in New England for several decades.
In comparison to heterosexual marriages, Boston Marriages at that time had many advantages, including more nurturing...
