A love marriage is a union of two individuals based
upon mutual love, affection, commitment and attraction. While nowadays, the
term has little discrete meaning in the Western world,
where most marriages are considered to be 'based in love,' the term has meaning
elsewhere to indicate a concept of marriage which differs from the norms of arranged
marriage and forced
marriage. Arranged marriages were also common in the Western
world before the 18th century.
The term has found usage in South Asia
and Middle-Eastern
countries which have strong traditional arranged marriage systems —where the
family of the woman, the man, or of both, arrange the marriage for the
individuals.
Depending on the culture, love marriages may be unpopular or
frowned upon.
Love marriage is a relatively recent phenomenon. The idea
that, instead of duty, affection should be at the base of a
shared life, was first expressed by Jean-Jacques Rousseau in his popular novel
Julie, or the New Heloise, in 1761.
It was picked up by the emergent romanticists,
for example Friedrich Schlegel, in his novel Lucinde (1799).
From that time onward, the ideal of a marriage 'based
on love' became more and more popular. However, it was not until the emergence
of the women's movement, that the traditional way of
choosing one's spouse - based on criteria such as wealth or their respective
social positions - were first widely overcome.
In the 20th century, the 1968 movement, the
subsequent second women's movement in
the 1970s, as well as the sexual
revolution initiated a number of far-reaching changes in Western
society: Equal rights for men and women, as well as the right of wives to work
even if their husbands disagreed. More and more women began to pursue careers.
For the first time, they were free from the need to find a
"provider", and "love marriage" became the social norm.
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