Is marrying for love a slap in the face of traditional marriage?

For centuries, people had married those who had been designated by their families. The modern myth of ';romantic love'; didn't develop until the 17th century, and is an affront to the centuries of marriage tradition. Everyone knows that marriage is intended to begin not for such trivial reasons as love, but for the more important reasons of family relationships, money, and transferring property.





I think we should have a constitutional amendment banning all marriages that are not arranged by families to end this abomination that sickos call ';love';.Is marrying for love a slap in the face of traditional marriage?
Yes, I think marriage based on 'love' can only lead to disappointment and pain. At least if it is arranged, there is no expectation of enjoyment.





michman - you are stupid. There is a reason it is called the marriage PENALTY. You pay MORE taxes as a married couple than as an individual. Secondly, in most cases both people already have insurance so there is no additional liability to allowing gay people to marry. Another straw man argument.Is marrying for love a slap in the face of traditional marriage?
You mean modern marriages that last like 5 minutes as opposed to traditional marriages that lasted 50 years.
The reason most gays want marriage to be legal is to raid the tax benefits and add their high risk partners onto your insurance so that we may all pay higher rates for their greed and lack of Intelligent lifestyle choices.
Umm, I think maybe you just want an arranged marriage because that's probably the only way you could ever get a wife! You seem like a backwards person who only sees women as a commodity to be used and to serve you as you see fit. Arranged marriages usually benefited only men and may have worked when women had no choice about how they lived their lives and who they spent their lives with, but thank God we are not bound to living in servitude anymore. What woman would choose a life in which her fate is decided for her without her consent, as opposed to having the freedom to live as she desires? I once knew a woman who was a victim of an arranged marriage to a man three times her age (she was 14 when she married him) who kept her as little more than a child-bearing servant and who beat her severely, and who cheated on her and gave her an STD. She escaped from him with her two children and moved far away and eventually remarried and found happiness. But her family disowned her and she lost all her old social ties. Oh, and this was in the United States, too. It still goes on among some cultures. It's disgusting if you want my opinion.