Arranged marriage update#
Join 25K+ readers. Get a free weekly update via email here. No conclusive answers but it’s interesting that choice/love based marriages didn’t come out on top in either. In some religious traditions marriages are arranged by the young person’s family. Source: “How science can help you fall in love” by Robert Epstein, from Scientific American Mind On the surface, arranged marriages look just like any other marriage: two people in a loving, committed union sealed with a legally binding contract. Whether your parents or friends arranged it, or a commercial website or dating app arranged it, or you arranged it any way, it is an arrangement.
Ten years into the marriage the love was nearly twice as strong. Article Sadhguru: Arranged marriage is a wrong terminology, because all marriages are arranged. But love in the arranged marriages they examined started out low and gradually increased, surpassing the love in the love marriage about five years out. Indeed, the love experienced by Indian couples in arranged marriages appears to be even more robust than the love people experience in “love marriages.” In a 1982 study psychologists Usha Gupta and Pushpa Singh of the University of Rajas- than in Jaipur, India, used the Rubin Love Scale, which gauges intense, romantic, Western-style love, to determine that love in love marriages in India does exactly what it does in love marriages here: it starts high and declines fairly rapidly. Young couples in India generally have a choice about whether to proceed, and the combination of choice and sound guidance probably accounts for the fact that studies of arranged marriages in India indicate that they measure up well-in, for example, longevity, satisfaction and love-against Western marriages. in status may increase womens power within marriages (see Mahony 1995), it might be less important to take a stand against arranged marriage and more important. Saunia Ahmad, director and clinical psychologist at the Toronto Psychology Clinic. Source: “Marriage Satisfaction and Wellness in India and the United States: A Preliminary Comparison of Arranged Marriages and Marriages of Choice” from Journal of Counseling & DevelopmentĪnother says that love is stronger in arranged marriages: Arranged marriages have changed drastically over the last couple of decades, says Dr. Implications for further research are considered. Differences were also found in 9 of 19 wellness scales between the 2 groups. Differences were found in importance of marital characteristics, but no differences in satisfaction were found. An arranged marriage occurs when a couple embraces the legal bonds of matrimony because of the planning and agreement of their guardians or families. The data were compared with existing data on individuals in the United States living in marriages of choice. One says arranged and choice marriages are equally happy:įorty-five individuals (22 couples and 1 widowed person) living in arranged marriages in India completed questionnaires measuring marital satisfaction and wellness. Why We Reason points to two interesting studies.
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