What was the relationship like between Lizzie and her husband as noted in the biography, You Want Women to Vote, Lizzie Stanton?

Lizzie and Henry had a strange marriage at best. She and her husband were more often apart than together, and neither she or her husband really supported the other's pursuit of her or his interests. The couple did, however, produce several children over a period of twenty years, and their marraige seems to have been loving.

Early in the marriage, Stanton formulated ideas that would become the foundation of her work for women's rights. For instance, she noticed, "In everyday life woman's rights seemed always to take second place to woman's work."

Henry, in response, complained that such attitudes embarrassed him and could hinder his political career. It seems odd that an abolitionist, someone who wanted to liberate slaves, should oppose the liberation of women, Elizabeth pointed out to her husband. In fact, she expected the liberation of the slave to coincide with the liberation of women. When this did not happen, she was very disappointed