Originally Posted by
bardkeep
He was always a love interest, but by "true love" I mean the central relationship in her stories. The women in her supporting cast were much more important and positively portrayed - Marston's Amazons had a law that they weren't allowed to get married and Diana settling down with Steve was depicted as "surrendering" to him. The Steve romance only became central after Marston's death, as part of a broader effort to wring out all of the feminism (which also included axing Etta and the Holliday Girls because the CCA threw a fit about them being lesbians).
Also Perez was far more of an influence on current WW than Marston, and his Steve was a much older dude married to Etta. Rucka's Rebirth run was the first comic in nearly 30 years to make him a love interest and Chris Pine popularized him with the general public.