Marriages in India

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a simple thing as to just pick someone so marry there child, the parents must choose someone who is religiously, economically, politically, and socially equally to them.
Soon the day arrives in which the bride and groom are to be married Back in the day when this day arrived it would be the first time the two would meet. The groom and his family would go to the house of the bride, where the ceremony would be held. At the end of the day the groom would return back to his house but this time with his wife that he still hasn’t the face of. Now in days the bride and groom have the opportunity to meet each other varies times before the wedding. This will give them a chance to get to know one another and tell there family members whether their marriage is going to work. Whether or not they have met the person before the ceremony they have a whole lifetime to learn how the person is and how to love them. For us Americans it may seem like cruelty, but these people have learned to accept ...

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of arranges marriage, “Here, we get married without having feelings for the person. We base our marriage on commitment, not on feelings. As our marriage progresses, the feelings develop. In America, you base your decision to marry on feelings, but what happens when the feelings wane? You have nothing left to keep the marriage together if you get married according to feelings and then the feelings go away.” This man has a point, it’s the commitment to a relationship that makes is work out in the end. A study shows that 1.1% of Indian marriages end in divorce while in America 45.8% of marriages end in divorce. Here in America people get divorced for simple and silly reasons. In India divorce ...

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