This is mainly due to the fact that many Indians live in joint families where the wives enter into and live with the husbands family.
Marriage is not perceived as a relationship between two people but as a relationship between families and especially between the girl and her husband’s family.Arranged marriages have always been a debatable subject.It is in the major outlook on relationships that Indians are vastly different, in the way they perceive the institution of marriage, to those beliefs of other countries especially in the west.We base our marriage on commitment, not on feelings. In America, you base your decision to marry on feelings, but what happens when the feelings wane?You have nothing left to keep the marriage together if you get married according to feelings and then the feelings go away.” In India, a relationship between two people is something that is presumed to be fostered and created throughout a lifetime of marriage.