But romance is the foundation of modern marriage, and has been since the 19th century. Marriage has long ceased to be an institution, Nietzsche was already talking about this in his time! This is a problem you should take up with Rousseau, Kant, etc., it already happened a long time ago; modern bourgeois marriage only has a firm basis in romantic love. I agree that’s not a good foundation, as we are seeing by now (and as the more far-sighted, like Nietzsche, saw a long time ago), but there ...
