societies found a way of turning lasting cohabitating unions into some form of marriage, whether the individuals wished to consider themselves married or not—thus the tradition in the United States and Great Britain of so-called common-law marriages. Additionally, sex outside of marriage, whether or not the couple lived together, was so morally sanctioned that the revelation of premarital or extramarital sex almost immediately led to grief, guilt, and the censure of society. But just as society grew weary