Marriage of Convience

I think often love is confused with infatuation. The later wears off whereas love grows. Arranged marriages have a significant lower divorce rate too so certainly the American system has flaws. So a marriage of convenience? Seems ok, but why not stretch your faith for God's will for the best partner you can find? Of course also one that is equally yoked?

It isn't necessary to be in love to marry. But there are intimate requirements for a union. Are you desiring a partnership with a physical connection?

~bella

Good observations, When I read the history of marriage, it seems that thru the centuries there have been many reasons to marry. To keep a kingly line going, so cement business associations, for love. Thru much of history it was a union that really helped people life, a division of labor, the jobs that took more strength (plowing a field) and interaction with nature and other groups of people(trading) and the live stock, crops and house chores.

I've heard of so many marriages that over the years just become friends.

Marriage itself has changed from who authorized the marriage, thru early history it was the family patriarch that defined who married who. Then the church said they were the ones who authorized marriage. Finally, in the 1500 the government became the ones authorizing marriage. Thru this whole period there were couple who just said forget all that and decided for themselves who they lived with and under what worked fro them! So despite the church saying there is one way marriage should be done, it's never worked that way.
That's not to mention all the other ways genders have done relationships thru the years.