{"id":14274,"date":"2015-06-05T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-05T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2015\/06\/05\/why-i-ve-decided-to-get-an-arranged-marriage\/"},"modified":"2015-06-05T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-05T12:00:00","slug":"why-i-ve-decided-to-get-an-arranged-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2015\/06\/05\/why-i-ve-decided-to-get-an-arranged-marriage\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I&#8217;ve Decided to Get an Arranged Marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.ca\/tamilculture\/arrange-marriage-decision_b_7433342.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>CANADA, May 25, 2015 (Huffington Post): Whenever I tell my friends that I&#8217;ve thought about getting married to a guy that my parents will pick for me, I always get the same response. &#8220;Wait a minute, an arranged marriage!?&#8221; &#8220;But why? Aren&#8217;t you worried!?&#8221; Like any other woman, when I was younger I was adamant about being in a love marriage &#8212; falling in love and getting married with or without my parents&#8217; approval was the dream, just like in the movies. What I did not understand was how much my parents truly worried about my future. They were concerned that maybe in my immaturity I would fall in love with the wrong guy, make bad decisions, and do something stupid that I would regret for the rest of my life.<\/p>\n<p>In the South Asian community, marriage is a big deal. It is a sacred pact between man, woman and God that is honoured for a lifetime. Divorce is rare. Once you&#8217;re in it, you&#8217;re in it for life. In a Hindu marriage, a crucial part of the pact is the parents. A marriage is not just the union of a man and a woman &#8212; it is the union of two families. The parents of the couple are just as important as the couple themselves. Upon realizing this, I understood why my parents would be concerned if I entered into a love marriage where I chose the man I would marry. They were worried that our families would not be compatible. In an arranged marriage, they would be certain that the match would be good for all parties involved.<\/p>\n<p>more at &#8220;source&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source CANADA, May 25, 2015 (Huffington Post): Whenever I tell my friends that I&#8217;ve thought about getting married to a,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}