Sunday, February 04, 2007

Love, Marriage and Divorce. My Perspective

Here's my take and love, love marriage, marriage and divorce and such stuff...

The first thing I want to say is why love marriages 'fail' as compared to arranged marriage that seem to 'work'! OK, now let us discuss about crush and 'college love'. When a girl and boy meet in such 'sterile' environs like college or school, I think they are not sufficiently corrupt with caste, religion and social status ideas which gives them an opportunity of a free hand to choose whomsoever they like in their environs. They love someone if they like each other and very rarely because that person belongs to a particular caste or or has certain social standing. Your mind gets corrupted with social evils as grow old!

When they get married, they are without any support from their respective families and this causes them to invest more effort and time to take care of themselves. Normally, a mother or a mother-in-law would take care of newborn but this does not happen in love marriages. The girl has to take care of the baby and herself too, which is a strain to a new wed girl.
Let us not forget that marriage is a marriage!!! It does not matter if the marriage happened because of some ad hoc arrangement or self arrangement or no arrangement at all; married people have the same problems with same solutions. The number of people who can solve the problems is less in love marriages than arranged marriages.

Now I want to say what I feel is a successful marriage: Suppose I marry a girl who I think is good for me and later on if i come to know that she is incompatible, I would prefer to divorce that person rather than spend my whole life. It does not matter if the marriage was love or arranged, all that matters to me is whether i am happy or not. You should not run a marriage simply because you have to make a success out of it for others to see and cheer! Why should i spend my whole life with someone who does not like me?? I would rather split and find someone better.

If you successfully divorce someone you don't like, then according to me that marriage is a success.

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