Quirks of having parents with a love marriage!

In countries such as USA,UK,etc,love marriages aren't a big deal-in fact,they happen all the time.Teenagers get married,adults get married and even senior citizens get married.But not in India!It is generally considered 'uncultured' to do a love marriage,and you have to ultimately spend your entire life with person you met one day before your marriage.But there are a lot of couples in India,LOTS of them,who had a love marriage,meaning who fell in love and got married,without much intervention from their parents.And this is kind of good for their kids because they get a lot of advantages and also a good tea-time love story that is better than DDLJ!So let's see what are the quirks of having parents with a love marriage.

1.Languages!

Most of the love marriages are inter-state languages,meaning the kids have to learn two or three extra languages.But it's really cool!Sure,there are gonna be times when you may mix Tamil with Punjabi,but that means you can talk in some unknown language to prank call your friends or even crack that Tamil and Punjabi perfectly!

2.Open-Mindedness.

Okay,pardon my English!Is there even a word called open-mindedness?!Anyway,most of the love-married are really open-minded.They don't really care about castes or creed or colour and stuff like that.And they don't freak out if you're dating someone.In fact,a lot of parents actually support your relationship.

3.Love stories!

All love married couples have a GREAT love story!Either they met on balconies,or crashed into each other in markets or movie theaters,or even hated each other in the start but then loved each other-every love story is amazing!These little love stories actually make you believe in love.Not the Bollywood-kind,but the real one.One that makes you sacrifice things for each other and makes you find someone perfect for yourself.

4.Different kinds of people.

Since your parents may be from different parts of India,all your cousins and aunts and uncles aren't really from the same part of the country.Because of this,you have different kinds of family members.You have all kinds of Indians under one family-from the lively and cheerful Punjabis to the shy and reserved South-Indians,from the 'mengo'-obsessed Gujratis to the chatty bengalis-it's an all-in-one deal!

5.All-India Tours: All The Time!

Because your family lives in different parts of the country,you can go to different states every vacation.This is the best advantage of having love-marriage parents!Different states,places and cities can always be visited,and since you always have some kind of family,you never feel alone.

6.The Jealousy!

For some reason,a lot of people are 'jealous' of the fact that your parents have had a love marriage! I know this sounds really dumb,but this is one thing I've observed so much!I mean,your fellow kinsmen aren't,but for your other friends this is a really big thing to be jealous about.Though exactly why they're jealous,I don't know,but jealousy is how it goes!

7.The Centre of Attention!

This is kind of related to the previous point!If I had a dollar for how many times I became the Centre Of Attention of my friends because my parents had a love marriage,I would have enough cash to buy Willy Wonka's chocolate factory with the Oompa-Loompas.People ask me weird questions-how my parents met,did they send each other any letters,who proposed,etc!While this does become annoying,you can't help but enjoy the time when you are like the mini-star of your friends for this little achievement!

So at the end of this I would like to put a point-love marriages and arranged marriages have their own pros and cons.Since my parents have had a love marriage I obviously find the former better.Morever,the fact that you have to marry someone that you don't know is really strange.No matter whose son or daughter it is,it's important that you fell comfortable with them first.But this is just an opinion that is really subjective.Thanks and happy reading! :')