Let's see if this comment is still too real for the current beliefs.

It's ok people. Mandatory romantic love is a few decades old social convention. Before that it still existed and it was optional, and it was understood that people appraise one another more on ego level, and materially first. You could have marriage and children with or without romantic love. It was an extra some people had the luck to have.

We still do these things automatically, but unfortunately in secret. Before that it was done openly.