Reply To: The differences between Yeshivish and Chasidish marriages

I understand there’s been a cultural tsunami among the Litvish since then, but back in the day in the alte heim in Lita before the world wars, they didn’t date like they do here. They had a pretty similar system to the chasidim as far as shidduchim are concerned, and they too more or less had arranged marriages where the parents made the critical decisions, with the boy and girl basically having at most a veto option they usually didn’t exercise.

And that’s the way it was for thousands of years in Jewish life. (I expect retorts focusing on having also used outhouses and not having had electricity for thousands of years.)