Marriage Wars: The Root Cause - Page 2

Now a days, lots of mariages have so many problems that most eventually end up in divorce.
Two people, who have committed their lives to each other break up in an instant.
People can make a book of excuses on why a marriage would not work. But if we look closer, many people do not work to save their marriage because they just want the easy way out. What could be the cause of this? Have they fallen out of love? Or have they realized that they were not meant to be?
These marriages that get broken are often love marriages. So does that imply that the traditional style of arranged marriage is more effective?
What could be the solution to this? Start the trend of arranged marriages again? Or keep the trend of love marriages that 50% of the time end up in lots of trouble? Or combine these two trends into a love-arranged marriage?
What do you people feel about this? Do you agree with the statements above? What kind of marriage would work best?

Edited by mikey0487 - 17 years ago

I'm too young to be married, so I dont have much experience..still I think, that nowadays the couples are not ready to sacrifice and try and adjust. We grow up in a world, where we are taught to fight and grab, but in marriage we "have" to give up somethings or make some changes, when neither hubby nor wife is ready to make them...the marriage reaches the rocks...Earlier, atleast in India, women were naturally expected to be as forgiving and sacrificing...so there was not much of a problem..but now nothing of that sort happens..everyone is fighting for their rights...so 'sacrifice' is not a word in their dictionary..that is the root cause of marriage wars!

And nowadays we have the option of divorce, earlier we didnt have that option at all, so even if life was not so good, they 'had' to try and lead a happy life.

Luv-Marriage or Arranged? I dunno, let the experienced speak 😊 !

love marriage on rocks... one reason.. people might have fallen in love with the "Illusion of Love" and later... its turns out to be something else..i.e. expectations not met.

but i don't think so that love marriages are more prone to end up in divorce... if people kept their "Eyes open and be Realistic/Practical" when got married. and later worked on it... i mean... falling in love is easy but being consistent in love is difficult... but they can work very very well...and this also applies at arrange marriages

in traditional marriages family members put a whole lot of pressure to make up the marriage like "No matter wht happens...family ki nose na kut jaaye" 🤢 to hell with that family ki nose 😡 if 2 people aren't happy and have the option of divorce... why to keep themselves in a continuous torture???

Today's woman is independent... she wants to be EQUALLY treated... if compromise is demanded from only woman side... are these men made of steel that can't bend slightly!!!?? EGO hurts 🤢 but now its more of two-way-traffic... if men don't try to compromise and learn to work on marriage ..women don't have the "Tender/contract" of always doing "Compromises" to the extent of losing their own self-esteem and respect!

But this DOESN'T MEAN that women are only held responsible for broken marriage...if so.. then this is Gender Biasness 🤢 ... Men are EQUALLY responsible tooo.. so ask both the sides for accountability...

P.S.. sorry for the overdose of "🤢" in the post😆...just wasn't able to control it😛

Edited by MNMS - 17 years ago

Originally posted by: MNMS

love marriage on rocks... one reason.. people might have fallen in love with the "Illusion of Love" and later... its turns out to be something else..i.e. expectations not met.

but i don't think so that love marriages are more prone to end up in divorce... if people kept their "Eyes open and be Realistic/Practical" when got married. and later worked on it... i mean... falling in love is easy but being consistent in love is difficult... but they can work very very well...and this also applies at arrange marriages

in traditional marriages family members put a whole lot of pressure to make up the marriage like "No matter wht happens...family ki nose na kut jaaye" 🤢 to hell with that family ki nose 😡 if 2 people aren't happy and have the option of divorce... why to keep themselves in a continuous torture???

Today's woman is independent... she wants to be EQUALLY treated... if compromise is demanded from only woman side... are these men made of steel that can't bend slightly!!!?? EGO hurts 🤢 but now its more of two-way-traffic... if men don't try to compromise and learn to work on marriage ..women don't have the "Tender/contract" of always doing "Compromises" to the extent of losing their own self-esteem and respect!

But this DOESN'T MEAN that women are only held responsible for broken marriage...if so.. then this is Gender Biasness 🤢 ... Men are EQUALLY responsible tooo.. so ask both the sides for accountability...

P.S.. sorry for the overdose of "🤢" in the post😆...just wasn't able to control it😛

Maryam, i wish i could reach out of the computer and give u a hug! Its exactly what i wanted to say and u said it very well! 👏👏

[Quote=sneha3105]Maryam, i wish i could reach out of the computer and give u a hug! Its exactly what i wanted to say and u said it very well!
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😳 😳 😳 u r cho chweet!

[quote=Iron]Marriage performed traditionally have been more successful as the family back grounds were checked.[/Quote]

even this can't be the criteria of the success of an arrange marriage.. at times even when family "Statistics" are checked still marriages don't work due to various other reasons.

its simple just EGO problem 🤢

I saw this movie yesterday. Anubhav- *ing Sanjeev Kumar, Tanuja by Basu Bhattacharya. One dialouge from movie-

Situation- Sanjeev Kumar and his friend were talking about other friend couple that was going to have divorce. Sanjeev said that these two people (couple) are very good individual, very mature, have similar frequency and they get along with all friends and relatives so well then how come they cannot get along with each other? and his friend says this --- "Zindagi ke har sambandh mein tarakki hoti hai. Bas ek pati patni ke sambandh hai jinhe 'taken for granted' samjh liya jaata hai. Unhein na toh badhane ke liye koshish hoti hai na toh tarakki ke liye."

so well said. No one tries to make their married life better and just take it for granted!!

Edited by sowmyaa - 17 years ago