What is Marriage?

Marriage is not just coming together of two individuals. There is much more to it. To sustain a marriage it is important that there is effort from both sides than only a marriage can carry on. A successful marriage is like a good recipe whose main ingredients are love, commitment, understanding, concern and togetherness. If you can include these aspects in your married life you can find happiness in your marriage. There's a saying, "A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short." Which is so true. When you talk about mental compatibility between husband and wife you have seen that not only incase of arrange marriage this problem exist where both of them were unknown to each other before marriage but even after many years of courtship in love marriages this problem exist because when they meet before marriage they are at their best to impress the other person. And starts accepting each other the way they like to see each other. But gradually after marriage when you slip into your natural self that time you have to accept each other as you are. And in most of the cases the real self is not what you wanted to see and then begins the contradiction with the person whom you have loved and with whom you have to spend your life. So it's important that when you love a person love him or her the way he or she is and not the way you want him or her to be. Than only you can be happy.A happy married life calls for constant commitment and concern for each other. There are few small and minute aspects, which you tend to forget in your married life, as you get busy with the daily chores. So at times it is important to indulge in those minute details of a married life, which will constantly remind each other of the love and concern being present.