Families are the last people who should be entrusted with the task of finding you a spouse, given that they are incapable of appreciating that you may have changed since the age of twelve. As for the high ‘success’ rate of arranged marriages relative to their Western counterparts – it is in large part attributable to the fact that the Indian youths in question are so limited in their encounters with the opposite sex that, when they are married off at random, they have nothing to measure the relationship against and endure behaviour others wouldn’t consider reasonable over a single evening, let
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