Anne Bradstreet Poem To my Dear and Loving Husband captures a contradicting phase to his time and religious beliefs. In the poem, she talks of how she believes her husband and I were ‘one’. However, the speaker does capture the financial basis of the marriage being the basis of its foundation. The marriage was not built on love but rather the financial gain and aspect. It was more of a partnership than a marriage. The same can be noted from her early life as she was born in a wealthy family. The way she was raised and grew up, therefore, symbolized that she was more into financial matters rather than the love itself.