Arranged marriages Essay

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ARRANGED MARRIAGES When marriage comes to mind, people think of happiness, eternal love, and a start of a new life. Although marriage may be a beautiful thing, people around the world have their own way of getting married. In many parts of the world, arranged marriage is practiced. Some people may think that arranged marriages are great because they don’t have to worry about finding a spouse in the future and then their parents approving. In reality though arranged marriages are awful because people don’t get the liberty of choosing who they want to live with for the rest of their life, they probably wont live a marriage full of happiness as a result of incompatibility, and in one way or the other it is harmful to the couple (usually the wife). Not being able to choose who people want to live with the rest of their life is probably the biggest disadvantage of arranged marriages. How are people supposed to marry someone they don’t even know? The couple themselves don’t get a choice on whether they want to remain the rest of their lives with the person of their parents preference. In some cases, things don’t work out and the marriages fall apart. For many, the way out would be divorce but, for those who respect their parents usually don’t take this option for fear of dishonor. As a result, they live the rest of their life with a person they would rather not be with. Although arranged marriages may have some advantages, I would prefer to choose who I want to live with in the future. Another disadvantage of arranged marriages is living unhappy the rest of your life as a result of incompatibility. It’s true that some arranged marriages do workout, but most don’t. Since people don’t know the person who they are marrying they may have different customs that their spouse may dislike. As a result they live unhappy trying to fit to their spouse’s limits. It’s a fact that
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