sex before marriage

stillearning

Salaam PM

I have seen some couples who have an arranged marriage and discover that their partner is the ideal one for them. But this happens only in less than 5% of the cases.

Wow! and over 90% of arrranged married couples are living an unhappy existance. Where has this 5% come from.
Salaam

unknownuser

SaLaM stillearning
Loooll its a joke. I guess it sounds better when said instead of written. But i tried.

Its hard to make some people laugh Jaxal wink

Arranged marriages hold because there is a social stigma attached to divorce in these societies...even though those marriages are terrible.

Regards,

Jaxal

SaLaM LT

especially in 3rd world countries like pakistan, india, bangla, malay, ... etc. They rather lead a miserable life than divorce.

unknownuser

Hi stillearning,

Wow! and over 90% of arrranged married couples are living an unhappy existance. Where has this 5% come from.

Yeah, only in less than 5% cases, the partners discover that they are ideal for each other. Well, not all of the others live in misery. Some just try to get along,by working hard on the marriage. And some live in misery.

Like I said, the odds that u will find the ideal partner in an arranged marriage, is only as good as marrying the first person u see on the street today.

stillearning

salaam PM

Like I said, the odds that u will find the ideal partner in an arranged marriage, is only as good as marrying the first person u see on the street today.

An ideal partner! I suppose that is why so many divorces in so called love marriages(before jaxal asks me what love is) I suppose it is search for the ideal partner!

salaam jaxal

especially in 3rd world countries like pakistan, india, bangla, malay, ... etc. They rather lead a miserable life than divorce.

very judgemental here. I suppose divorce must be some form of happiness!

salaam LT

Its hard to make some people laugh Jaxal

I yes I do laugh first thing in the morning it gets it over and done with for the rest of the day.

Arranged marriages hold because there is a social stigma attached to divorce in these societies...even though those marriages are terrible

Please everyone what is with you guys is this a competetion for who can come up with most cliches and stereotypes.
It might be that people like each other, and their kids, work on their marrages and that is why they hold.

One suggestion by those bamboozled by so called love marriages(sorry jaxal point taken) why not spend a day in the family division of any court>

regards

unknownuser

Hi Stillearning,
let me rephrase it, coz this is very true as well.
The odds that u find a compatible partner in an arranged marriage, is only as good as marrying the first person u see on the street today.

Jaxal

SaLaM stillearning

Not being judgemental. Its the truth. They rather stay in their miserable marriage than get a divorce becoz those who get divorce in those countries are looked down upon. Especially women. Society labels them as 'defected' equipment. There is a reason those countries are called 3rd world.

phoenix1

wait. can i just ask where these percentages are coming from? about arranged marriages being unhappy. just wanna know.

And Jaxal, here's what "3rd world" really means. And i dont think Malaysia is a poor country. is it?

The term "Third World" was coined by economist Alfred Sauvy in an article in the French magazine L'Observateur of August 14, 1952. It was a deliberate reference to the "Third Estate" of the French Revolution. Tiers monde means Third World in French, but in the sense of "one-third" -- it does not mean "third in rank" (which would be troisi?me monde). The term gained widespread popularity during the Cold War when many poorer nations adopted the category to describe themselves as neither being aligned with NATO or the Warsaw Pact, but instead composing a non-aligned "third world" (in this context, the term "First World" was generally understood to mean the United States and its allies in the Cold War, which would have made the East bloc the "Second World" by default; however, the latter term was very seldom actually used).

from wikipedia.org
http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_world

TAJ

Hi Sis PM,

Are you a social worker?

unknownuser

Hi Sis Taj,

Are you a social worker?

Where did that come from? )
No, sis, am not a social worker.

unknownuser

Salaam LT

Its hard to make some people laugh Jaxal

I yes I do laugh first thing in the morning it gets it over and done with for the rest of the day.

People who laugh by themselves in the morning surely they need to see a shrink wink

Arranged marriages hold because there is a social stigma attached to divorce in these societies...even though those marriages are terrible

Please everyone what is with you guys is this a competetion for who can come up with most cliches and stereotypes.

Oh please don't flatter yourself. Go and study past Victorian attitudes to divorce! And the attitude to divorce in countries like Pakistan, Bangladesh, India etc...

It might be that people like each other, and their kids, work on their marrages and that is why they hold.

Work on their marriages? Ha ha, yes I have seen many arranged couples worked on their marriages but usually with their fists!!! It is so unfair to live in an abusive and degrading marriage for the sake of the kids. It is best for the kids that these marriages end!

One suggestion by those bamboozled by so called love marriages(sorry jaxal point taken) why not spend a day in the family division of any court>
regards

It is best to LOVE and lost than never to loved at all wink
But you would not know that yet because you are "stilllearning" wink

Regards,

unknownuser

Hi Stillearning,

Please everyone what is with you guys is this a competetion for who can come up with most cliches and stereotypes.
It might be that people like each other, and their kids, work on their marrages and that is why they hold.
One suggestion by those bamboozled by so called love marriages(sorry jaxal point taken) why not spend a day in the family division of any court>

I think u didnt get a very good picture of 'Arranged Marriage'. Nobody is talking of a perfect partner, perfect life etc. (and then again, perfect is a 'relative' term)

And relationship between compatible partners will also need the occassional 'working on' to keep it going. But thats not the whole issue here.

There are people stuck in 'arranged marriage' as they have no choice. If both partners have absolutely nothing in common, where will they start to work on? And if they both give each other nothing but misery, what the whole point of the relationship? But in these societies, divorce is a dirty word, no matter what.

I have read(reported in news every now and then) of girls(mostly in the lower-middle class hindu society in india) who walk out of marriage bravely coz they get physically and mentally abused everyday in their husband's place and the girl's own parents send them back to their husband's house, coz the idea is 'thats where she belongs after marriage, no matter what'. How ridiculous is that!

shamsul-arefin

Hi Stillearning,

Please everyone what is with you guys is this a competetion for who can come up with most cliches and stereotypes.
It might be that people like each other, and their kids, work on their marrages and that is why they hold.
One suggestion by those bamboozled by so called love marriages(sorry jaxal point taken) why not spend a day in the family division of any court>

I think u didnt get a very good picture of 'Arranged Marriage'. Nobody is talking of a perfect partner, perfect life etc. (and then again, perfect is a 'relative' term)

And relationship between compatible partners will also need the occassional 'working on' to keep it going. But thats not the whole issue here.

There are people stuck in 'arranged marriage' as they have no choice. If both partners have absolutely nothing in common, where will they start to work on? And if they both give each other nothing but misery, what the whole point of the relationship? But in these societies, divorce is a dirty word, no matter what.

I have read(reported in news every now and then) of girls(mostly in the lower-middle class hindu society in india) who walk out of marriage bravely coz they get physically and mentally abused everyday in their husband's place and the girl's own parents send them back to their husband's house, coz the idea is 'thats where she belongs after marriage, no matter what'. How ridiculous is that!

Just being qurious....

how do you consider "Arranged marriage" in erms of ethical value ?

shanti(peace)

Jaxal

SaLaM Shamsul and PM and stillearning and LT and all

how do you consider "Arranged marriage" in erms of ethical value ?

I dont think there is any ethical value.

I have read(reported in news every now and then) of girls(mostly in the lower-middle class hindu society in india) who walk out of marriage bravely coz they get physically and mentally abused everyday in their husband's place and the girl's own parents send them back to their husband's house, coz the idea is 'thats where she belongs after marriage, no matter what'. How ridiculous is that!

Same thing in PAkistan to and even in UAE (but very rare). And funny thing is, its the parents from those countries that beleive that love their children the most.

People who laugh by themselves in the morning surely they need to see a shrink

And if they dont.. they become like you LT... old chap wink

It is best to LOVE and lost than never to loved at all

No its not.... old chap wink

One suggestion by those bamboozled by so called love marriages(sorry jaxal point taken) why not spend a day in the family division of any court

Or watch Jerry Springer Show D

unknownuser

People who laugh by themselves in the morning surely they need to see a shrink

And if they dont.. they become like you LT... old chap wink

I can laugh at you quite easily chap!!! morning and noon wink

It is best to LOVE and lost than never to loved at all

No its not.... old chap wink

Young man you need to grow some hair on your pubes to know the truth of that sentence wink

Regards,

Jaxal

SaLaM LT

I can laugh at you quite easily chap!!! morning and noon wink

SEE! SEE! what happens when you dont go to the shrink!... old chap wink

Young man you need to grow some hair on your pubes to know the truth of that sentence wink

Oh i know the truth to that sentence. I see it clearly coz old age hasnt clouded my mind yet.... old chap wink

unknownuser

Hi shamsul-arefin,

Just being qurious....

how do you consider "Arranged marriage" in erms of ethical value ?

Didnt quite get ur question. what do u mean?
Peace!

shamsul-arefin

Hi shamsul-arefin,

Just being qurious....

how do you consider "Arranged marriage" in erms of ethical value ?

Didnt quite get ur question. what do u mean?
Peace!

sorry for not being clear......I mean if you are to judge in a natural way which is the sound and justified by natural law than how would you evaluate the concept of arranged marriage ?

did it get more complicated...?? hehe

shanti(peace)

unknownuser

Hi Shamsul-arefin,

sorry for not being clear......I mean if you are to judge in a natural way which is the sound and justified by natural law than how would you evaluate the concept of arranged marriage ?

did it get more complicated...?? hehe

What natural way? what natural law?
and yeah, now it got all the more obscure P
Sorry.
though i think i have a vague picture of what u r asking, am not very sure.

unknownuser

Hi shamsul-arefin,
Well, if u r trying to ask 'is arranged marriage ethically correct' by natural law(i have no clue what u mean by natural law )

Arranged marriage cant be ethically correct coz

theres an element of coercion by parents
the people getting married have no or little say in the whole deal
the people getting married dont get to know each other before hand, so they have no idea what to expect(ignorance). so, can be called a gamble of life, in short.

I dont see any ethically correct principles involved in it.