In 1847 you could be a 38 year-old schizo radical misogynist and soon-to-be political prisoner and still manage to secure a cute young tradwife by randomly proposing to a girl on the street you'd never spoken to before. This is what they took from you.
He wasn't some random asshole. He was well known. Do you think Charles Church or Spic Fruentes would have significant difficulty securing a Target cashier as a wife?