Marriage of attraction is a gamble anyway, so you might as well marry into a family that is similar to your own, and make that much less of an adjustment. But the ’love marriage’, as it is called, is equally common in India now. But it would be interesting to do a comparison of what would work better. Marriage is hard work, and it is a gamble.

Our state cannot be sever’d; we are one,
One flesh; to lose thee were to lose myself.

Hail wedded love, mysterious law, true source
Of human offspring.

Marriage: that I call the will of two to create the one who is more than those who created it.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.