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Kakarot..." She began, thinking that she should figure out how this big misunderstanding took root. "Where did you hear that marriage was food?"
"Huh?" Kakarot asked, as if sensing that there must be a problem from how his mother was reacting. "It's not a food?"
She really shook her head now. "No, it isn't."
"Oh." He sounded slightly disappointed. "What is it then?"
Gine had no idea how he wasn't aware of this social union concept, but she guessed that they never had to cover it in his homeschooling since there wasn't any immediate need to. Still, it would be better for him to learn about it now than in a more embarrassing situation.
"Uh, well... it's when two people, mostly a man and a woman, take each other to be their partners for the rest of their lives." She tried to put simply.
"Take each other to be partners?" Kakarot repeated, the concept sounding so alien to him.
"Yes." She went on. "It means that they love each other very much and want to stay together forever."
Gohan picked up where Gine left off, "They have a big ceremony called a wedding where friends and family come to watch them commemorate the moment the man and woman declare their love for each other. Then they make a socially binding pledge to spend the rest of their lives together, where they become husband and wife respectively. That is what the saying 'to be married means'. Hence the word, marriage." He finished with a high note as if finishing one of his brilliant lectures.
"That's right." Gine agreed, grateful for Gohan helping her out.
"Ohhhhh." Kakarot took in this new information. "So, when a man and woman love each other very much, they get married by saying they want to be with each other forever?"
"Yes."
Kakarot thought for a moment, trying to wrap his mind around this concept. "But...does that mean any man and woman that says they love each other?"
"Well, no... I mean, they could." Gine tried to elaborate "It's supposed to be between people who are not blood related but are very, very close. Like they have a very powerful emotional bond with each other, as if they can't stand being apart from each other. So, they make a promise to live together."
"Oh." Said Kakarot. "So, marriage means two people saying they love each other and end up living together?"
"Yes. Mainly unrelated people who want to be together to start a family." Gine said, glad she was able to get this new thing to him across and not mess up his first impression on how pair bonding works.
"Start a family?" He asked.
"Yes, people who want to be mothers and fathers together." She added.
"Mothers and fathers?"
She nodded but then regretted it.
"Hmm." He held his chin thinking. She dreaded that he was going to ask how THAT worked. He may now finally grasp the basics of marriage but wasn't quite ready for the Talk yet.
"So, did you and my father get married?" He asked.
This caught her by surprise and forgot about worrying about what he would've asked.
"Well... sort of." She said carefully.
"Sort of?"
"Yeah. Saiyans don't marry the same way humans do."
"In what way?"
In every way, she thought.
"Well, for one, they didn't call it marriage. It didn't even happen that much at all."
"Really?"
"Yes." Gine said.
Indeed, marriage was a very rare thing in Saiyan society. Only the super elites and Royal Family practiced it, the general belief being that they were the only ones worthy enough to make a holy declaration that they shall keep their superior bloodlines alive through each other.
"Saiyans didn't stick with partners or even fall in love either. Only to become parents. And when the children are born, they went their separate ways." She said simply.
"Oh."
"It never ceases to amaze me how different Saiyans are from humans." Gohan said.
"Were." Gine corrected.
"So... you didn't love my dad?" Kakarot asked.
"Oh no, absolutely I DID love him!" She said fiercely, trying to quell any doubt about that idea. "We were more like an unofficial couple." She tried to explain.
"Unofficial?"
"Like it means we were kind of married, just that we were... not." She said, thinking her own answer sounded lame.
"How can you be married and not married at the same time?" Kakarot said, confused.
"Well, it's not that. Like I said, Saiyans didn't
join together as humans do. But the important part was that we loved each other."
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