So almost everything in this tweet is wrong. https://twitter.com/CVEconomist/status/1245726020843352065?s=19

Wages stagnate for a century and a half after an initial increase, but sure go off.
Also, I do not know how to break this to you, but peasants were not the ones in arranged marriages.
Also the concept of marriage as romantic is a Victorian one. That's a five hundred year wait.

I know we are looking for happy endings right now, but "relationship structures will change 500 years from now as a result of our suffering" is a dark silver lining even if this premise was true, which it emphatically is not.

I realise I don't have anything written specifically on peasant marriage, but the people who *were * doing arranged marriages (rich people) pretty much kept doing that because the whole marriage = love thing is just SO NEW.

When medieval people write about marriage and love, they write about who you fall in love with and bone while *being* married. Yeah. They were into cucking. What? https://going-medieval.com/2018/09/07/on-cuckolding-a-thing/

Look, I just gave you an excuse to read about cucking because of bad Black Death takes. This is my gift to you. Enjoy.