6/20/2023 0 Comments Arranged marriage statistics![]() Epstein - "The idea is we must not leave our love lives to chance. Ten years on, the affection felt by those in arranged marriages is typically twice as strong.ĭr Epstein believes this is because Westerners leave their love lives to chance, or fate, often confusing love with lust, whereas those in other cultures look for more than just passion. His work suggests that feelings of love in love matches begin to fade by as much as a half in 18 months, whereas the love in the arranged marriages tends to grow gradually, surpassing the love in the unarranged marriages at about the five-year mark. He has interviewed more than 100 couples in arranged marriages to assess their strength of feeling and studied his findings against more than 30 years of research into love in Western and arranged marriages. Here is an extract from The Daily Mail UK that talks about the findings of Dr. Robert Epstein from Harvard has studied the subject of arranged marriages for eight years, that focused on arranged marriage practices among Indian, Pakistani and Orthodox Jewish communities. Invariably, people falling in love also happen to choose partners with a similar personality, background and attitude!ĭr.
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