My name is Vijaya. I am from India. I would like to share my opinions about arranged marriages and common-law relationships. An arranged marriage is a marriage planned by the families of the bride and the groom. People also depend on matrimonial sites, match making agents, trusted third party, friends and relatives to find a bride or a groom. During this process, they usually compare the horoscopes of the bride and the groom and proceed further to the engagement process if both the families approve for the wedding. In most cases, the bride and the groom are strangers and they come to know about each other only during and after the wedding.

Most of the people in India are not much aware of common law relationships because we don’t follow that custom in India. I came to know about the common law relationships in detail only after coming to Canada and I was very surprised to hear about that. However, these days few celebrities in India started to opt for common law relationships but are not considered as a respectful relationship in Indian society.