Which was yours, love marriage or arranged

@nehaagra (848)
Singapore
July 13, 2009 5:32am CST
I believe most of the couples here must have their love marriges, Ours was arranged by our parents... How did your marrige took place.
8 responses
@ketybhagat (4123)
• India
23 Jul 09
Me and my husband were teenage friends. We never thought of each other as marriage material. I would go out with guys and discuss it with him and so would he. We had a lot of fun in each others company. Then we lost contact for some time as he moved away to work abroad. It was then that I started realsing I missed his nature! The fun loving guy th at he was. When he came back, we hit it off again and decided to marry. Now after 21 years of marriage, I can still say our love is strong, though we quarrel more often. But we forget th e next minute. Thank God for that.
@nehaagra (848)
• Singapore
23 Jul 09
Looks like you two understand each other very well, that's why you quarrel, and let it go too soon.. wishing you many many more wonderful years to come..
• India
23 Jul 09
Thanks pal. May you too find a long and lasting love in life. Cheers.
@nehaagra (848)
• Singapore
23 Jul 09
I already found my love, and now i'm happily married with 2 lovely kids..
• India
23 Jul 09
Hi friend........ I am not married yet but i know thata mine will be a love marriage...!My family knows about him and his too and we are very eager to get married......and maybe in 2011 will be our marriage year.......o God please.....!!!! Happy mylotting my dear friend......!!!
@nehaagra (848)
• Singapore
24 Jul 09
woow congrats.... But how could you wait for so long..,i mean more than a year, Anyways best of luck and wishing you a happy married life in future...
• India
23 Jul 09
Hi Neha, Mine was love marriage. I was too smart for my age I guess and since adolescence, one thing I was sure of was having a love marriage LOL We were college mates actually and its been twelve years now and we are more of friends than spouse, really.
@nehaagra (848)
• Singapore
23 Jul 09
So nice to hear that... Nowadys in india too, love marriages are more common than arranged ones..., atleast nearly 70% of my friends did...
@dpk262006 (58675)
• Delhi, India
17 Jul 09
Hi! Dear! Like you ours was also not a love marriage, ours was an arranged marriage and we are happily married. Arranged marriages are held in India, as oour families remain involved in our marriages and they come out successful too. Love marriage is no guarantee of success.
@nehaagra (848)
• Singapore
22 Jul 09
Absolutely correct, love marriages are no gurantee of sucess. In fact in western countries, where their's all love marriges only, they have equally high rate of divorce too.. But atleast in arranged marriges , if something goes wrong, family is their to support, and help the couple..
@jpso138 (7851)
• Philippines
22 Jul 09
Our was a love marriage. In our place, arranged marriages are not very common. We always have the freedom to choose to whom we marry. Well, I am not also against arrange marriages. I have seen some that have been successful and is still strong until now. There are also those that are not arrange but have broken up. So its just depend on both parties. But then of course, if there is love the greater the chances of growing old together and live a happy and successful relationship.
@nehaagra (848)
• Singapore
23 Jul 09
Actually in our country, arranged marriages are more popular, as family bonding is at a high priority..., But nowadays a lot of love marriages, or you can say love + arranged marriges are also very popular..., And its the best possible way to have a happy married life...
@babshish (1387)
• India
22 Jul 09
Hi Neha, Mine was also arranged marriage. Both love and arrange marriage has their pros and cons, like in love marriage you already konw the nature of the person while in arranged marraige you don't know anything about the person. So in love marriage it becomes difficult to get changed for the other not always but say for a small samll things, while your mindset changes with the arranged one because you don't know anything and you are open to adjust yourself for that person. And as per my % wrong.
@nehaagra (848)
• Singapore
23 Jul 09
You are correct, both has its pros, and cons, and none can be consired a gurantee for success... It all depends on the couples mutual understanding...And may be that's why arranged marriages are more successful..
@cutygirl (576)
• India
13 Jul 09
I believe in love marriage. its really exiciting to roam around with your boy friend before marriage, hanging out in garden, watch movies, lots of enjoyment.
@nehaagra (848)
• Singapore
14 Jul 09
Yep i do agree with you... Though ours was arranged one, still after getting engaged , we had plenty of time to hang around with each other, and know each other...
• New Zealand
13 Jul 09
Well I am not yet married but I believe marriage should be a thing of love. Of course I am not going to object to the arranged marriage you may be truly happy in that arrangement. But lets say you aren't? What if you meet someone along the way who you truly do love and wanted to marry instead of the partner you are with now. You could only leave to the disapointment of your family. I can understand all the choices people make so I guess the descision is left up to ones self
@nehaagra (848)
• Singapore
14 Jul 09
But it all depends, i have seen a lot of love marriges do break, due to lack of understanding... It can't be predicted beforehand for a marrige to be succesful..