I am American, but I have Nepalese friends, where arranged marriages are popular.
I don't know where you are.
One of my friends, her parents have promised her she can pick her own husband. The others basically have been told if they find a love match before their parents find a match, that's fine. But if they haven't found a love match by then, they have to marry the man their parents found for them.
I don't know what to tell you, but I do want to say you can have a love marriage... if you find someone to love...
But there are also benefits to arranged marriages-- far less divorce, for one thing, because both of you come in knowing you have to work on it.
Loving someone is wonderful in a marriage, and I think necessary (if not from the beginning, love MUST develop to have a healthy marriage). But sometimes, people think love will cure all their marriage woes, and don't actually WORK at their marriage. Where as couples in arranged marriag
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