Marriage is a huge step in someone’s life; you’re getting to spend the rest of your life with another human being that’s making the same promise, until death turns us apart. Usually, the one that is next to you is someone you are deeply in love with, someone you know for a while and you felt a connection, but sometimes, mostly in Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Japan and India, Bangladesh and some Muslim/Islam countries, you don’t have a clue on who you are marrying and the person you going to spend your whole life with is a complete stranger, and this, my friends, is an arranged marriage.
This kind of tradition it’s not looked good by western society (although there are some arranged marriages in this society, specially with royalty) and it’s criticized by human rights since everyone has the right to choose, specially, who you are sharing your bed. Despite all negative opinions, arranged marriages have a lower degree of divorces (maybe because they come from conservative countries) and they are not all in force action, families try to chose a good partner and someone respectful and honored (like they do in China). Marriage is difficult, would not know the person you are marrying makes it easier? What are your opinions?
Source from:
«Arranged Marriage Facts.» Professor's House. 18 de August de 2011 <http://www.professorshouse.com/Relationships/Marriage-Advice/Articles/Arranged-Marriage-Facts/>.
I think, personally, that it is easier for everyone to know their future wife/husband; but anyhow, you will never get to know someone at the 100%, we all change. Even if you marry someone you never met before, you could end up loving each other. The point is that it is hard to commit oneself in marriage when you don’t know the person you’re marrying. On the other hand, going through marriage is not about knowing each other but accepting each other as they are.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion marriage is one of the most important decisions in life because you give and spend your whole life to one person and I think that in order to have success in marriage you need to know very well the person you are marrying,share ideas, fellings with him/her you need to have similar thoughts and likes, beside this I think that the most important aspect is to love this person more than anybody else I mean in every marriage you can have troubles but if you are in love with that person somehow you will find out the solution to the problem, like Sam Keen said “Love isn't finding a perfect person. It's seeing an imperfect person perfectly.” that´s why definitly I don´t think that arranged marriage will function in any way, because if you don´t even know the person you are marrying, less you will love him and it will be very difficult to be in accordance with each other.
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