It has just started in India amongst educated class in big cities. It is natural that it is unacceptable to many. Many opine that it may be OK in west, it is against our heritage/culture. It is to be noted, some time in the past, west was also as conservative as us in such matters. But they had to accept it because of socio economic pressure. There was a time when mankond did not know about marriage, which had to be created due to socio economic pressure after men invented agrculture. Due to the same socio economic change, institution of marriage is loosing its importance. According to the famous futurologist, Alvin Toffler, a day will come when marriage will be thing of the past. I am not suggesting that it will be good or bad for the society; but it is going to come. Let us review as to why people go for Live in Relationship. I feel the reasons are: - 1) In good old days, when the husband returns home in the morning after spending the night with his paramour, the ideal wife would massage his body; it is because the wife had no option - but it was one extreme. 2) Now if one snores, the spouse will go for divorce - this is other extreme. 3) Amongst educated class, both the partners are qualified with good personalities - so both expects equality more than anything else. When one tries to suppress the other, divorce is the inevitable outcome, which is quite costly and that scares the youngsters. 4) So it is better to live together and find out if they are compatable instea
RE:LIVE IN RELATIONSHIP
by tom her on Jul 29, 2007 06:57 PM Permalink
If so much noise can be raised for something as simple and logical as live-in, then imaginethe onslaught that will follow such as poen lesbianism.What will society do about that? compare to that live-in relationship is nothing really.-tom
