“She even ridiculed it in her mind and was a little ashamed of the association. But every hour or two the battle had to be fought anew. She couldn't make him seem like any other man in her eyes” (Hurston 106). Janie was cautious because she wanted to make sure that Tea Cake was truly a good man and would be the right person to marry (Their Eyes Were Watching God: Marriages and Analysis). Even though Tea Cake was poor and much younger, Janie decided to marry him, thus starting her first love marriage (The Concept of Love and Marriage in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God). Janie had learned to trust Tea Cake and love him, something she had never done