Why Indian Marriages are Flawed ?

Source: Art Udaipur

In India marriages are not personal affairs, they are the matter of whole  society and social media has already worsen the situation with fancy showcases and over-glorification of togetherness. 

Here marriages are a display of wealth and power of a family over others, Often those relatives and people are called who don’t even give a fuck about the marriage, and are not even close to the bride and groom. 

There are societal pressure, family pressure, expectations from bride as a housewife or a caregiver of family and various factors which make Indian marriages so absurd.

In India if you observe closely you will find that there is no concept of arrange marriage and love marriage, there is only one concept and that is parental nod.

Arrange marriage is when parents find a suitor to their daughter/son and they arrange a marriage with the consent of their children.

Now,

In love marriage here it’s just the opposite they have all the contents and customs of arrange marriage but the only difference is that their children has already found their partner on their own, now they have to fight to convince their own families so that they can marry, does this even sound like independent love marriage?

Whether it is love or arrange marriage it doesn’t even matter, bride have to often compromise and even suffer in both type of marriages the difference is only that in love marriage she will suffer with the person that she love.

In marriage bride often have to proof herself that she is good care taker of the family and even judged accordingly with high involvement and influence of the in-laws in a marriage.

While men enjoy their patriarchal hegemony in marriage, women are the one who suffer the burden of not only the expectations from family which she adopted but also the expectation of society and becoming an “ideal wife”.