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A somewhat meme answer would be that our veneration of the Virgin Mary means that Catholics tend to appreciate motherly women a lot more.
Also, Tolkien's wife met and fell in love with him, but his father figure forbade them from dating because she was of legal age and he was not.

Give me some fun trivia about your wife
For instance, Jeanne once exposed a charlatan woman who claimed to be getting holy visions