Board Thread:Future TES Titles/@comment-172.77.223.83-20160223201617/@comment-1746153-20160512080146

That's why I try to pick marriage options that have more than one small interactions. For example, for Hilund, you help her (along with the others) to retake her home, you also help her sister, and then you do a quest for her, personally. It feels a bit more that just bringing potatoes (lol).

There are a few cases in which it feels like the character actually has more reasons to at least develop a crush on the Dragonborn. And I usually go with these cases. I know the game lampshades the fact that the marriages are rushed several times (Maramal's "Life is hard, and short, so there is little room for long courtship", or your spouse's "Brief as life can be in Skyrim, at least we'll have each other"). So maybe people in Skyrim are really desperate ._.