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confab confessor                                                          

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Live in relationships


The oldest institution on earth concerning human relationships is marriage that has survived all odds all over the world. Despite doubts raised by people who suffer failure in marriage, strangely it is something that most aspire to reach at some point in their lives. Those who fail once, wish to try it the second or even third time. So what is it that makes marriage desirable? Why don't people just live in together and walk away when it becomes inconvenient?get married and suffer the trauma of divorce when incompatible?suffer idiosyncrasies of your partner? spend rest of your life with a person whose wavelength does’t match yours? All these choices are available in Live in relationships.

With High rate of educated people & living away from families, it becomes easier for younger generation to experiment such relationships without being committed. The option to part away for various reasons makes it lucrative and fearsome at the same time. Lucrative: you can have good time till you want and move out at will, fearsome: emotional involvement leaves you bitter and makes you feel used or exploited especially if one partner is more involved than the other.
The insecurity associated with it can make you anxious.I believe marriage gives permanence to a temporary union, pushing two divergent personalities to adjust and care for each other. It asks for commitment and sacrifices, to redeem your ego in favor of harmony,prods you to bring balance in life at the cost of self determination.
Advantages of such relationships are that you need not stick together if both partners are really incompatible. No more subdued, no more accommodating, having mind of their own and economically independent, men just can't take women for granted anymore. This imbalance in their thinking, if sorted out before they commit to get married is a much better option.
“ Marriage is social approval to enjoy conjugal bliss.”
It’s no more the case. By the time two people marry they have their own established identities and convictions and are less pliable leading to high rate of separations and divorces. Perhaps its time to re evaluate our notions of marriage and work with natural forces rather than against them. Perhaps time is ripe to rethink the meaning of marriage; time to give two adults choice to look for compatibility before they exchange vows to remain forever with each other. Institution of marriage then will be at sync with this new career oriented generation.