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So the crux of it is that an arranged marriage would be more convenient to your schedule?
See, I have this fear that an arranged marriage would have put me in a dead relationship. Yeah, he might have been more financially stable than me and SO were in the beginning. But we loved each other from day one. I don't just want an OK husband. I wanted one as eager to please me as I am to please him. What if I got tied down to a jerk?
I found my husband all on my own and I'm happy with him. I had/have no interest or need for an arranged marriage.
Good for you. Some of us have no aptitude for finding someone on our own. My only chance would be if I lived in a society with fixed marriages. Being responsible for having to find someone myself, there's no way I'm going to do it. But I've accepted it as my lot in life, and I'm OK with it.
However, part of me wonders if I'd enjoy getting laid, even though that means I'd have to raise some bratty kid.
You know, now that I think of it, maybe I'm glad I live in a society where I wasn't forced to marry, and so I get to remain free.
I'm regretting my vote. I'm male and I'm glad there are no arranged marriages.
So far, one man would prefer arranged marriage. 6 men voted against and 3 women voted against. No women for so far.
Doesn't look like most people want arranged marriages.
No ****, sherlock. This is America, home of the free.
My vote was a mistake (like those who voted for the current occupant j/k) and so there should still only be 1 vote in favor of arranged marriages at this time (there are 2, mine and the earlier person's).
Arranged marriage is contrary of natural selection. Who is nation who have arranged marriage? You answer. And who are ugliest people at this planet? Yours idea do not have any chance in Western world nor Eastern Europe.
Marriage itself isn't part of natural selection for that matter, so is the case with money, cars, etc etc. Besides, waiting to hear from you about the nation with the arranged marriage and the ugliest people on this planet both. I am sure I would be charmed by your thoughts.
I don't know about marriage, but it would sure be nice if any of my friends arranged me a date with a single woman that they know. Unfortunately, none of my guy friends really know any women, and, sadly, my one lady friend think that I am too good for them.
This is probably true, since she talks **** about her friends behind their backs...
A poster said some people, with difficulty dating would prefer arranged marriages with divorces difficult to obtain. I doubt it. Maybe a tiny minority. But I figured it wouldn't hurt to put up a poll.
This sounds like a joke coming from a Yank, but I am close to Amish and their lifestyle.
I've seen it first hand.
Either they fake it really well, or don't know any better.
Most have husband/wife relationships that make Hollywood two month deals with millions seem like a joke.
Arranged marriage doesn't necessarily equate to forced marriage. I know lots of people who have had arranged marriages, arranged in the sense that they were introduced to each other through mutual family friends or if their parents were family friends to begin with. When I used to live down South, I have met several couples that were introduced to each other by their elders who went to the same church, etc.
One of my good friends met his current fiance through his family since the girl's dad and his dad were buddies back in the day. I had visited them over the long weekend, although they don't live in the same city they meet every other weekend, hang out with each other, go to dates etc etc and seem to be very much love. Now that might not be the perception that most people here have of an arranged marriage, if it's a forced marriage then I condemn it but two adults marry each other with their consent, how can it be a forced marriage?
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