parents of the two individuas chooses the spouse of the child, are much more commonplace. In those arranged marriages the divorce is 10 times less likely to happen and those partners in arranged marriages report extended periods of romantic feelings than those of free will marriage
Arranged marriages can work “because they remove so much of the anxiety about ‘is this the right person?’ ” said Brian J. Willoughby, an assistant professor in the School of Family Life at Brigham Young University. “Arranged marriages start cold and heat up and boil over time as the couple grows. Nonarranged marriages are expected to start out boiling hot but many eventually find that this heat dissipates and we’re left with a relationship that’s cold.” Considering your parents raised you all of your life, maybe it is true that they might know the best.