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She got along well with her husband. Though after the first few years, it was always a long distance marriage even before she went to Italy to live with Algarotti. (And we know how that turned out.) It also has to be said that she knew him pretty well by the time she married him (to avoid a "hell" her father had in mind for her, and after losing a "paradise"), so they both knew what they were getting and entered into the marriage clear-eyed. Originally, she had been friends with his sister Anne. Then young Edward decided he found young Mary intrigueing, and comandeered his sister's correspondence with her. I.e. he started to reply, roleplaying Anne. (And also dictating to Anne, so the different hand writing wouldn't give up the game.) Then Anne died young (of typhus), and after a few weeks Edward wrote as himself, confessed what he'd done, and started to woo her. They kept corresponding and meeting and breaking up and reconciling etc. for a good while (he was pretty bossy at first, which she didn't take well to) until she decided to accept his proposal and run away with him. (Which they had to since Dad wanted the Hell guy for Mary.) But while Lady Mary always kept up writing to her husband even during her years of living in Italy till he died, Grundy and Halsband both think she was never in love with him, and it was always friendship for her.

Mind you, given what happened when Lady Mary really truly deeply fell in love, the "Limbo" was definitely better!