Arranged Marriage vs Love Marriage: A Comparative Study

Marriage, also called matrimony or wedlock, is defined in general as a social, and legal contract between two individuals that unites their lives legally, economically, and emotionally. There are several basic rules for a marriage to succeed, but the way those two persons decided to be bound by marriage defines the validity of those rules. The typical two ways a couple can end up marrying are, direct contact resulting in love, or arranged marriage. Our topic will shed light on the arranged marriage situation then comparing it to love marriage, while also bringing up the case of forced arranged marriage, and discussing its two different types, then presenting the modern arranged marriage and proving its effectiveness.
According to Gagoomal (2009),

Arranged marriage is not only a marriage between the bride and groom but also between their families, where the marriages are designed between the two upon economical, educational and cultural statues. In some countries, arranged marriage is considered as forced when the couples or specifically the bride is under 18, and the marriage contract will not be valid.

On the other hand, love marriage or what considered marriage by choice, is the marriage between two individuals who are in love (most often teenagers) regardless of family

This is said to be the effect of having a lot and high expectations for the people entering throw the gate of love marriage.
The most common one is that those romantic and passionate feelings you are experience now will stay the same for the rest of your lives. While actually what happens is that after the first few months when the honeymoon stage is over and the mundane realities of marriage have set in, people begin to feel dissatisfied wondering if their partner still loves them as these passionate moments decrease and daily work and life’s needs comes nocking.

Another one of the high expectations is the saying “Your partner should always ‘get you’. You should be able to finish each other’s sentences. Your partner is your soul-mate”. This is an obvious wrong feeling, every person has his own experiences in life, their parents may have had different parenting styles, they may have come from different economic conditions, been children of divorce or long-term marriage of parents, be oldest, youngest, middle or only child in their family, etc. This clearly affects the way that each person thinks about problems, issues, ideas and situations. If not handled correctly this could have catastrophic effect on the