Different Kinds of Marriages

"Male and female, He created them. Then God blessed them, and God said to them, be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it (Gen. 1:27-28)". The social institutions under which a man and woman establish their decision to live in a legally committed relationship called marriage are a beautiful and secrete commitment. As time changes so does one's traditions and morals. Years ago, marriage used to be something a person could only dream of since they were five and would die before it ends. In different societies and religions, the commitment as one are taken in several routes and can be defined in multiple ways such was traditional, divorced, arranged and polygamy.

Traditional marriages can be described as two people falling in love, tying the knot, having children and growing old sitting on the front porch. Between couple all across the country, this is considered the most popular and highly preferred type of marriage. Finding that significant other you truly have affection for demonstrates commitment and a long life of future plans. For instance, being together after high school and remaining high school sweethearts, getting proposed to at a young age traveling together as young newlyweds, having a huge beautiful wedding with a decadence of flowers and deciding to settle down in a lovely home with little Joseph on the way is the way most people dream of as their traditional marriage.

In contrast, not all good things come to wonderful endings. Some traditional marriages can travel downhill in a matter of months. The separation by law of man and woman in a legal contract is the result called a divorced marriage. The couple could be together for several years and things could be going well when suddenly arguments start to arise and the disagreements begin to tear the blissful couple apart. In sickness and in health, till deaths do us part will no longer have a meaning. The happiest couple will start to bring the family down along with their children. They will decide to go their separate ways and most of the times deciding for the kids to grow up with either the mother or the father. In those cases, that means dividing the living expenses for their children, the child living in both households for a certain period of time and how all the sudden changes affects their lives start to become a concern the divorce parents have to learn the juggle. It's unfair for children to experience their parents being unhappy but its apart of life. Welcome to reality.

On the other hand in foreign countries like Africa they would perform a different from a marriage called arranged marriages. An arrange marriage is when the family on both sides marry of their children for whatever pressing issues their families are going through. A king may offer his daughter to a prince of another than just so they will be fine with each other and not start a war or international problem. Sometimes they would just