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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I like that they show couples that started with arranged marriages and then fell in love but I wonder how often this approach works out? [/quote]

Pretty much always. It's such a different mindset and mode of operation. But they almost always have a lot of love and respect, and they stay married.

And this must be much less true these days, even in india. [/quote]

Almost always? Ha, noooo.  But more often than not it worked out really well and people were as happy as anyone else. Of course in previous generations “worked out” meant just that they stayed together. So there could also be a lot of dysfunction, abuse, etc in a couple that “worked out”. But I would still say that in large part people were not more unhappy than others and certainly (no research to cite), older couples in love marriages may have had to deal with a lot of issues due to how insular things were back then (different castes, languages, not getting parents approval etc).

I know couples who should be divorced because they are just a bad match (no abuse) and I know ones who truly fell in love after marriage. [/quote]

Agree to disagree [/quote]

I guess so? I didn’t say they never work out. I think more often than not, they do. But I question how you would know they “almost always” do, given the cultural and structural barriers to divorce that existed. Seems to be an overly simplistic way of looking at it, IMO. [/quote]

You guess so? Ok. LMAO

Yeah sorry I think that in these types of arranged marriages that they featured on the show there is almost always a great deal of love and respect. Like the couples they interviewed, if you ask them, did it work out the same way for most of your peers? I think they would say, I know some cases where it did not work, but yes, almost always.

I guess I'm just really simple and if I were a sophisticated as you, I would have a different take! [/quote]

I think you are, sorry. Are you talking about the specific marriages featured or generally? Generally, there were so many compromises in so many marriages. Some were fine, some weren’t. To say that any arranged marriage is “almost always” happy is hilarious. And I’m not anti-arranged marriage at all. [/quote]

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