Arranged Marriages or Love Marriages
Do you prefer an arranged marriage or love marriage? Which one is better?
Marriage is a life course which we should learn to have a better life, and it means a lot to us. Since it is so important, there are oceans of topics on it. Even kids are talking about this kind of topics. Among them, arranged marriage or love marriage is on the top list.
Arranged marriage or love marriage, which do you prefer and which can last longer? In most of the movies, love marriage is always advocated, for it is romantic and, what’s more important, for freedom. Talking about novels, Pride and Prejudice shows a vivid image of the arranged marriage and love marriage. Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare is another example on this topic. There are more, much more novels on this topic, from which we can learn something. The conclusion is that most of us like the ways of love marriage. Also, with the time goes on, there are fewer and fewer cases of arranged marriage.
So, arranged marriage or love marriage which last longer? This is a good question for all of us, for few of us enjoy both of the style. Once in a blue moon, there is a person get married with arranged marriage and then a romantic free love marriage. Admittedly, there are this kind of cases, but the percentage is to the degree of neglect. Who is the person you love, and why? This is the most important question for a serious marriage. Where do you find you love? What is your opinion of arranged marriage and love marriage? This is important, too. The reason is that your attitude will affect the result of the marriage. If you are a person who cares nothing but love, you can accept arranged marriage, if you find that your would-be other part is the kind you like. You can refuse arranged marriage, too. If we have to find the answer of the result of the arranged marriage and love marriage in the aspect of which lasts longer, we have to think about it in percentage, for there are much fewer cases of arranged marriage nowadays.
Actually, this is also a question about personality. We do not have the exact figure of the percentage which we can use to compare the arranged marriage and love marriage. However, we do know that, in fact, arranged marriage lasts longer on average. It is really amazing, right? Why? Is there anything wrong with the love marriage? Of course, there is nothing to blame for love marriage, instead, we advocate love marriage in terms of freedom. The reason is that if a person who accepts arranged marriage, he or she, most likely, is very patient with their marriage. Even if, sometimes, there is infidelity in their marriage, they can succeed in passing the hard times. There is even marriage without love for a life time among the persons with this kind of personality.
If a person loves romantic marriage, he would refuse to accept arranged marriage. Therefore, the failure of arranged marriage is not very common as we see in the movies and novels. Once there is a person who is forced to accept an arranged marriage and he or she fights for his or her free love marriage, there would be a great story about him or her. Then, it is magnified by the media. So, we may have the wrong impression that arranged marriage cannot last longer. Actually, it is not the case.
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Karen Gross
On November 1, 2008 at 9:02 pm
I think that the main reason that love marriages fail is that we choose partners who are physically attractive to us. Physical attraction creates strong emotions, which we might think is love, but it really is just infatuation. During this passionate stage, we overlook the other person’s flaws and habits, because we believe that ‘we are in love’, and ‘love is all that matters’. Then reality strikes, the infatuation wears off, and we start to see the flaws and we get annoyed by the habits. Some people think that this means they have ‘fallen out of love’, when really, this is where true love starts.
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