Upper Classes:
1. The marriage not unhappy, wife suffering from disorder arousing suspicion of syphilis; conjugal fidelity of the husband prior to the occurrence of this illness doubtful. Children sickly.
2. Both parties to the marriage happy in advanced age, after the husband had lived freely.
3. Both parties happy in advanced age childless.
4. Husband impotent, wife unhappy.
5. Husband an old man, wife unfaithful.
6. Husband and wife apparently happy cliildren scrofulous.
7. The husband removed from home by circumstances, wife unfaithful.
8. Both parties unhappy, the husband a libertine.
9. Both parties apparently content in advanced age.
10. Husband a dissolute old libertine, wife unhappy, but resigned no children.
11. Condition precisely similar to No. 10.
12. A happy mesalliance.
13. The husband phlegmatically happy, wife dissolute, children ill, mother sickly.
14. Husband dissipated, wife resigned. Husband and wife have come to an understanding.
15. Husband a libertine, wife a Messalina. Both parties syphilitic. Children sickly.
16. Both parties unhealthy and miserable. Husband dissipated, coarse. Wife ill, in a decline.
17. Husband a coarse libertine, wife separated from him and unhappy.
Upper-Middle Classes:
18. Both parties unhappy. Husband impotent. Wife, who is elderly, a Messalina. Marriage childless and unceasingly stormy.
19. Both parties tolerably happy, owing to gentleness and good-heartedness. Husband a sensualist and unfaithful. Wife faithful, ailing.
20. Both parties unhappy. Incessant domestic warfare in the house.
21. Phlegmatic rich husband, poor suffering wife marriage childless happily, as it seems.
22. Both parties in very advanced age, apparently happy. Their past doubtful. Scrofulous children.
23. Childless marriage between a former high-class mistress and a dissolute man.
24. An apparently happy marriage between a still young husband and an elderly wife. The former compensates himself secretly.
25. Unhappy marriage. Both parties unsatisfied. Husband dissolute. Wife resigned.
26. Happy marriage.
27. Doubtfully happy marriage.
28. Extremely unhappy marriage. Husband a libertine, unprincipled; wife half insane; children syphilitic.
29. Unhappy marriage, the husband formerly somewhat fickle, the wife unforgiving.
30. Happy marriage. Both parties immoral, dissolute; the wife carries on secret prostitution with the knowledge of the husband, who on his side keeps several mistresses. They take matters philosophically!
31. The husband a libertine and seducer by profession, the wife separated from him.
32. Happy marriage. The husband inclined to gallantry, without being absolutely dissolute. Wife gentle, patient, fond of her husband, and faithful.
33. The husband ill as the result of dissipation, the wife frivolous. Indifferent marriage.
34. The husband made happy by means of his wife's money, but neglects her; she is very ill, wasting away. Childless marriage.
35. Husband impotent. Wife, with knowledge of her husband, on intimate terms with a friend of the family. In its way a happy marriage.
36. Dissolute husband, dissolute wife, both shameless and freethinking in mutual indifference they seem fairly happy.
37. Husband old and sickly, a worn-out libertine. The wife on intimate terms with a friend of the house. Happy marriage!
38. Unhappy marriage. Husband phlegmatic, wife extremely passionate and voluptuous.
39. Unhappy marriage. A worthless speculator who led astray the wife of a wealthy man and then deserted her. Childless.
40. Husband debilitated by excesses; wife immoral. Happy marriage!
41. Husband debilitated by excesses; wife patient. Happy marriage!
42. A similar state of affairs.
43. Happy marriage. Both parties still very young, untried.
44. Happy marriage. Husband phlegmatic wife faithful.
45. Husband debilitated by excesses, wife rich. At the moment, a happy marriage.
Professional and Trading Classes.
46. Happy marriage. The husband phlegmatic and seldom unfaitliful; wife forbearing, good, and faithful.
47. Happy marriage. Both parties rich and young. Husband, without his wife's knowledge, loves the joys of Venus.
48. Unhappy marriage. An enforced marriage of prudence. The husband lives with a concubine, wife separated from him.
49. Unhappy marriage. Poverty, jealousy, and childlessness.
50. Happy marriage, owing to the forbearance and consideration of the wife towards the sullen, irascible husband.
61. Unhappy marriage. Husband lives happily with a concubine, the wife unhappily with a false friend.
52. Unhappy marriage. Phlegmatic husband, immoral wife, continuous quarrelling.
53. Unhappy marriage. The husband henpecked, impotent. The wife masterful, quarrelsome, and ill-tempered.
54. Husband and wife have separated.
55. Happy marriage. The husband is good-humoured and deceived; the wife a sensual libertine; children sickly; wife incurably ill.
56. Happy marriage. The husband a worn-out debauchee, the wife a worn-out prostitute. Both incurably ill, for the same reason.
57. Happy marriage, happy from necessity and phlegm.
58. Happy marriage. The husband, a swindler, does everything possible for those dependent on him. The wife, formerly a prostitute, is happy in consequence of his care.
59. A happy, artistic marriage. Happy on account of mutual laxity and accommodation.
60. Similar circumstances.
61. Happy marriage. The husband conceals his diversions with success. Wife faithful and always gentle.
62. Unhappy marriage. Light conduct on both sides, with usual results.
63. Happy marriage. The conjugal fidelity of the husband not above suspicion.
64. – 65. Similar circumstances.
66. Unhappy marriage. A marriage of prudence. The husband set himself up with his wife's money, but spends it on light women; the wife revenges herself by boundless ill-temper.
67. Unhappy marriage. Marriage of prudence. The young husband settled in business on the money of his elderly wife; she nags, and he is drinking himself to death.
68. Marriage happy owing to avarice on both sides.
69. Marriage compulsorily happy owing to poverty on both sides.
70. Happy marriage! Husband a drunkard. Wife avaricious. Childless.
71. Husband and wife are separated; the husband abandoned his wife to poverty and prostitution.
72. Unhappy marriage. Husband impotent, wife lustful. Continued unhappiness.
73. Young married pair; wife mistress of a wealthy Jew, who supports the family.
74. Unhappy marriage. Husband dissolute, no longer cares for his wife; the latter incurably ill; children syphilitic.
75. Unhappy marriage. Both parties sickly and poor.
76. A marriage of speculation. Husband has sold his wife three times to different wealthy men; in this way he makes his living.
77. Immoral marriage. The husband lives by a swindling industry. The wife lives on a pension given by one whose mistress she formerly was children brought up to prostitution.
78. Easy-going marriage. Husband formerly a domestic servant, now in business; wife formerly a prostitute who had saved money. Childless.
79. Happy marriage, between a fool and a clever woman.
80. Unhappy marriage. The husband dislikes his wife, is plagued to death by her; she brought the property into the house.
81. Dissipated husband, dissipated wife, separated from one another. The children scrofulous.
82. Impotent husband, licentious wife, sickly children; angry and stormy scenes.
83. Worn-out libertine, young wife; the parties are not unhappy, owing to affluence and freedom from cares.
84. Artistic marriage. Wife the mistress of a great man. The household goes on comfortably.
Lower Classes:
88. Happy marriage. Husband a thief, wife a prostitute.
89. The marriage unhappy in consequence of poverty.
90. Unhappy marriage. The husband a drinker, the wife working amid trouble and poverty.
91. Unhappy marriage. Poverty, misunderstanding, jealousy, and illness.
92. A family of servants. Wife and daughter at the disposal of the master.
93. Unhappy marriage. Frequent brawls. Mutual mistrust, hatred, and contempt .
94. Unhappy marriage. Upright husband deceived by his wife, and, in consequence of great poverty, is unable to control her.
95. Unhappy marriage. Husband has run away.
96. Immoral marriage. Husband, wife, and children live on the wages of unchastity.
97. – 99. Miserable marriages, which ended in the poor-house.
100. A happy pair, who had endured all the severe trials of life, had forgiven each other everything, and never abandoned one another, a virtuous marriage in the noblest sense.
100 types of marriage from the book “The Sexual Life of our Time in its Relations to Modern Civilization” by Iwan Bloch, 1909.www.ludwigtype.de
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