And the trope of putting a modern woman’s idea of marriage onto a historical character is stupid. And most of the time badly done. Marriage means survival in most cases. I get so annoyed by characters who never have to worry about eating when the setting they are in is one where they should need to

Until Addie is doing all that I’m sorry but I don’t believe that she would have any reason to fear marriage when even to this day most women are trying to get married as fast as possible to the first man they meet.