 Dear students, in this module, we are going to discuss the arranged marriages. Arranged marriages refer to the marriages in which parents or other family members play a key role in selecting potential partners for their children. These marriages are still common in many parts of the world, including Pakistan. Arranged marriages are often seen as a way of ensuring compatibility between partners and of strengthening the family and community ties. If we look at the modern society, most of the love-based relationships are focused on and a flexibility is being established within the society. In Pakistan, particularly youth, they are more interested in love-based relationships as compared to the marriages arranged by their parents. Interestingly, conventional or traditional societies had less divorce rates and more understanding of marital satisfaction. In such marriages, parents or other family members are involved in these relationships. But today, social media has made communication very easy. Especially, our education system is based on co-education. So, it has become more prevalent that two potential life partners should first come into a romantic relationship before marriage and then convert that relationship into a formal legal relationship in marriage. Interestingly, these trends and patterns flow from the life ideologies of western societies. They have nothing to do with traditional or conventional life ideologies. But now that they have become a part of your society, the sociologists have to observe how these trends and patterns are affecting your arranged marriage relationship and are changing it. In other words, the comparative analysis of arranged and love marriages can be seen in how marital satisfaction is involved in relationships. The biggest logic behind arranged marriages in conventional or traditional societies is that these two families are related. That is why relationships are more important for them. The characteristics of the individual partners or their life skills are more important. Since they are more focused on the relationship building, the marriages in arranged marriages are considered the union of two families, the union of two individuals. Similarly, one of the potential benefits of arranged marriages is that in case of certain disputes within the spouses, the people involved in that arranged marriage are also involved in that dispute resolution. Then there are many social support mechanisms developed. In case of certain life accidents in which a life partner is left alone, even in that case, your support mechanisms play an active role in such relationships. And especially in arranged marriages, the provision of children, which is involved in a collectivity and extended family relationships, then the responsibility of the provision of children is also included in that collectivity. Along with this, the disadvantages of arranged marriages may be that the compatibility of married partners is not built and sometimes marriages are possible between incompatible spouses. For example, the age gap may be too much. Similarly, one partner may be highly educated and the other may be uneducated. Along with this, the interests of your life, the goals of your life may not have such incompatibility. So it's a food for thought for you. It's very interesting that you see that in your traditional family system, how arranged marriages strengthen or ensure marital satisfaction. For this, you can interview your grandparents and parents. Along with this, you can also see it from a comparative point of view. Especially in the youth generation in which love marriages are more prevalent.