May have been a joke but I’m pretty sure I remember “if you really loved me you would share him” being a paraphrase from an actual letter from Angelica to Eliza.

tyrannosaurus-trainwreck:

leupagus:

mnemehoshiko:

leupagus:

YUP 100% TRUE. In reality, Angelica (and I thiiiiiiink Peggy?) were already married by the time AHam rolled up and tried to hey, girl everybody in that damn household, but there is ABSOLUTELY a letter Angelica wrote to Eliza being like “c’mon dude DON’T BE SELFISH”

mnemehoshiko:

HAVE ALSO BEEN JUST TOLD THIS BY ANOTHER SOURCE AND NOW I AM SOME WHAT CONCERNED ABOUT WHAT EXACTLY  WENT DOWN IN THE SCHYULER HOUSEHOLD??!??

“I love him very much and if you were as generous as the Old Romans,” she wrote Eliza in 1794, “you would lend him to me for a while.” 

#I’m sure Eliza let them have a bang weekend once in a while #she was super nice

….

*inhales smelling salts*

*LIES UPON FAINTING CHAISE IN SHOCK*

Bro I say this as nicely as possible YOU NEED TO LEARN MORE REVOLUTIONARY HISTORY. FOUNDING FATHERS WERE ALL NASTY AS FUCK.

Oh my fucking god.  You know, that thing about the Old Romans?  Divorce was no big in ancient Rome.  It took Christianity rolling in to change that.  They were getting divorced constantly. 

Roman historians even recount shit like one dude admiring another dude’s kids and his wife’s maternal and civic virtue, and they were such huge bros that the guy and his wife got divorced so she could marry this dude, have another family with him.  Then once they’d all gotten older and chilled the fuck out a little and she hit menopause, she and broheim divorced and she and her original husband got remarried and went back to living together.

This was presented as kind of an admirable thing to do on everybody’s part.

Like, this was not even Angelica being subtle about it.