For the la-- Hah. You realize that most of the time it's the girls dumping the guys, right? No, I guess you wouldn't. Girls generally have a lot more... control in my time. Control and power and dominance.
[He was getting to understand that it might be hard for Sansa to really picture this.]
It's... no one makes someone go into a courtship or marriage or anything. Well, they're not supposed to. Two people meet and if they like each other, they start dating. Sometimes it doesn't work out and they can part ways nicely or not very nicely, but sometimes it does and they get married. Even then, though, it doesn't always last. There's a lot of divorces. Some people just aren't made to be monogamous.
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[He was getting to understand that it might be hard for Sansa to really picture this.]
It's... no one makes someone go into a courtship or marriage or anything. Well, they're not supposed to. Two people meet and if they like each other, they start dating. Sometimes it doesn't work out and they can part ways nicely or not very nicely, but sometimes it does and they get married. Even then, though, it doesn't always last. There's a lot of divorces. Some people just aren't made to be monogamous.