Arranged Marriage Essay

What is marriage? According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary "Marriage is a union representing a special kind of social and legal partnership between two people”. Marriage is considered be a union in which it should last a life time. Marriage can be look at differently depending where you come from and also what you belief in. In western countries arrange marriages have been known to exist for decades. On the other hand there is also Love marriages which consist of two people who genuinely love and are attracted to one on other. Either Arrange or Love they are still considering marriages with different beliefs, traditions and customs. Arrange Marriages should not eve allow even though it is a culture in the Western Countries.

There are different types of marriages but the most two common marriages are the Arranged Marriages and the Love Marriage. Arranged Marriages are known all around the world but is not a typical marriage in most cultures. Arranged Marriages is when you have no right to neither give your opinion nor neglect your parent’s arrangements (N.A.,"Traditional Arranged Marriages."). Love marriage is the most common marriage where the parents chose or have an opinion on which you can marry but their opinion will not affect you at all (N.A.,"Traditional Arranged Marriages.").

In an Arrange Marriage people do not have options what so ever to choose who they want to spend their life with. “Seventeen years later, Im still married to him, still grieving, and still trying to figure out why I stay.” said Debie Thomas in her own article called "I Wanted to Marry My Soul Mate. My Parents Had Other Ideas. Seventeen Years Later, Here’s What Happened”. Debie was twenty-two when she met her husband Alex. Debie’s pa...

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...better life. Then she said but then I would not have had a you guys, meaning my twenty-three year old brother and I. She started dating my sister’s husband and now she is happily taken. That is why I feel that in every relationship you learn something about yourself.

Marriage is “a union representing a special kind of social and legal partnership between two people” (Merriam-Webster Dictionary). Marriage means the same thing to all of us but the way we get to the alter depends on our culture. Culture can dramatically impact and make a big difference in the way we view marriage. A person you choose to spend your life with should not be chosen by anyone else but yourself. That is the person you will have beside you with your family. Anyone will do anyone will anything to protect their family weather is the wife or husband, so we all need to choose wisely.