• Shared values

Couples in a love marriage have more knowledge and understanding of each other and their backgrounds. This makes them accept each other’s differences and embrace the similarities. Also, it is seen that couples with a set of shared value systems are preferring love marriages as they rate this aspect higher than shared religion, languages, social mores, and cultures in many cases.

• Better understanding, knowledge of one another

In a love marriage, a couple has knowledge and understanding of each other beforehand.
This makes the first few years of marriage much easier as compared to an arranged marriage. Being privy to each other’s personalities, this couple has chosen to marry each other, which makes them come into the marriage with an informed decision.

 

•  Adjustments become easier

A couple’s prior knowledge from their dating days ensures that they have an understanding of each other’s personality, character, likes, and dislikes.

• More give and take of culture

Increasingly India is seeing interfaith and inter-caste love marriages taking place between people belonging to completely different backgrounds and traditions. So in order to bond better with the other, there is a melding of cultures and traditions so that there is give and take. This way both partners feel equally represented in the relationship these days.

• Less parental pressure

In an Indian marriage, two families come together. In an arranged marriage since the lead is taken by parents, they tend to have a say in the marriage which puts additional pressure on the newly married couple.

• Partners have each other’s back

Since love marriages in our society have to face a lot of pressures initially before it culminates into a marriage, the relationship becomes stronger as a result. This also builds trust which ideally should make them each other’s strongest allies in any given situation.

• Intimacy is easier

As physical attraction and mental bonding drive a love marriage, partners do not have to work hard to create that intimacy inside a bedroom

• More freedom

As both partners know each other from before the marriage, there is more freedom for them to express their opinions and live life to the fullest. Partners feel that the relationship and later the marriage provides a safe haven for them to be themselves completely and live their most authentic life without any pretensions or secrets.