不过社会提倡的是婚姻和一夫一妻制，那么为什么采取行动来改变现状呢？

Society values marriage and monogamy, though, so why isn't it doing anything about it?

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她的求爱故事反映了她那个时代的社会规范：一夫一妻制和婚姻对于人们来说并不是必须的，却直到死为止都是我们必须遵守的原则。

Her courtship story reflects the social norms of her time: monogamy and matrimony, not necessarily in that order, but certainly till death do us part.

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据Peggy Vaughan所说，他是《一夫一妻制的秘密》的作者，书上的数据显示40%的女人和60%的男人在他们的婚姻生活里起码有一次出轨。

According to Peggy Vaughan, author of the Monogamy Myth, statistics show that 40 percent of women and 60 percent of men have affairs at least once in their marriages.

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