The Addams family had many traditions, some going back hundreds, even thousands of years. Gomez had been raised in them, had loved many of them all his life. Dances, duels, demonic rituals, the annual welcoming of the spirits of the dead...
Arranged marriage had long been another. Gomez knew the reasons for it: the supernatural community was a small, secretive one; marrying the wrong person in times past could get your whole family burned at the stake.
As he gazed at Morticia, macabrely magnificent in the moonlight, he felt a sudden certainty that this tradition would be one he defied.