Would you marry without love?

hmm that is a very good question. i did marry with love, but i know there are alot of people that do get married and there is not love and they try and make themselves love one another.

no i do not believe marriage without love can ever work. Marriage is very hard work, without love it must be impossible

I am one of those many indians who had an arranged marriage. Although there was a gap of a year between our engagement and marriage we really understood each other after marriage and fell in deep love. Its 9 years and am proud to say we both are deeply in love with each other.

I would not marry without love. However, a way to love someone is to get to know them before you commit to marriage. Being friends first before being lovers makes for a stronger relationship. I do not think that I would take the chance of marrying without love and hoping it turns to love later. I would need to know that our personalities could mesh together and get along with living with each other. Without knowing this it would be hard for me to considering intimately loving someone.

no i would not, but yes in india many arranged marriages happen, but then the couples fall in love during honeymoon and after marriage....maybe this system is perfect as india has the one of the lowest number of divorces in the world

You know right that in India their are somany prefer to get arranged marriage some of them are just for dowrry & in some cast girls & boys are not watching their face atall before marriage only their parents are deciding & the marriage is happend in that case if you don't have any option then i think this marriage is not marriage it's just a mutual considreation between both families & i don't want to get this kind of marriage because i don't think that is i don't love her then i will not able to be happy with her after marriage

I would rather be alone than to be married to someone I didn't love, to me that's what a marriage is all about.

Actually, it all is tradtions and culture. I am too an Asain and my country lies next to india. I am from Pakistan. Euorpeon children live seperate from their parents after age of 18 but many asains live with their parents even if they become Parents too. The marraige of my Parents is an arrange marraige. My Dad did n't see my Mom before marraige but my Mom had seen Him in another marraige but my Parents ife is better than people who did love marraiges. They r quite happy with each other and love each other.

I really would (and not many people who are generic white, grew up in Canada, etc would). Fortunately, I'm lucky enough that I found someone I'm thrilled with :) But yes, it's always been my feeling. I would not marry ANYBODY that ___ picked out for me BUT if a person felt the way I did about many of the important things (finances, raising children, etc), they were nice, we didn't have things about us that very much offended or put off the other, etc then very much. I would have loved to marry a best friend or someone whom I respected very much. I would much rather pool my resources with someone whose company and values I enjoy and be able to accomplish the things I want with my life than to be in bad relationships or no relationship IF that meant that I didn't have the resources to do much (travel, etc... any of my goals). I hope this answers your question!

im in india and here near about 70% of marrieges are arrenged marriege not love marriege.......and i have seen they stay together happily forever ...and in india divorce is allowed.....but i woyld go for love marriege..

no. I wouldnt, marriage is about love and spending your life with the one you love.

if she had alot of money only.

i don't think i will never do this in my life time. Because there is no point in marrying someone we don't love.do you think its worth doing that ?

How come we can get marrying somebody withour love. At least we must have some time to know better about aur future spouse, because marrying someone to become our wife or husband is not a small matter, but it is all about our future life.

I dont think it is a good idea. Thats what marriage is all about. If you dont have love what do you have?

Speaking from experience here.. After I had my son out of wedlock everyone in his family and ours were saying you should do the right thing and marry his father. Well I finally gave in 3 months later and married him. It was the most horrible marriage I could of ever had. He was emotionally abusive to me, and didn't want anything to do with our son. I did not marry for love I married for the sake of doing the right thing. I know now 11 years later that I should of just stood up to my family and his and just went our seperate ways, but instead I really tried to make it work for almost 5 years, after that I filed for divorce. Low and behold come to find out when I filed for divorce he didn't want anything to do with me or my children. We haven't seen him in almost 7 years. No support, No phone calls, No visits. The only good thing that came out of that marriage was my two children which I wouldn't give up for the world.

It is possible for arrange marriage to work given the time, because it just takes time to love a person. But it would be different if one have experinced or met their "the one" because it needs a lot of adjustment.

yes,it happens only in india, and its success rate is much greater than love marriage.in arrange marriage we love each other after marriage and its great experience that we marriage a girl without love and then we love each other.

Most people marry for love, and look at how many divorces and separations there are. I think a person could learn to love someone if there is effort put into the relationship on both parts, and a committment. I think a lot of the time people just give up on love and marriage at the first sign of difficulties, and don't even try to work out things...so I suppose no matter which situation....the big thing is how committed the two people are to trying, and working together in making the marriage work.

in the case where you invested most of you young life to and much older person and he might be nearing the end and he wants to marry tell me what do you think? DUTCHESS