A. The arranged marriage of today is more clearly manufactured but it also offers a more certain outcome.
B. In the West, the curiously antiquated notion that it is the prerogative of the man to propose marriage makes for a situation where the promise of marriage is tantalizingly withheld by one of the concerned parties or an indefinite period of time.
C. Indeed, going by Hollywood movies, it would appear that to mention marriage too early in a relationship is a sure way of scaring off the man.
D. So we have a situation where marriage is a marriage that shimmers on the horizon frequently, but materializes rarely.
E. Online matrimonial sites are full of young professionals seeking matches on their own, knowing that what is on the table here is not a date but the promise of marriage.
F. The matting process becomes a serial hunt with the man doing the pursuing to begin a relationship and the woman taking over the role in trying to convert it into something more lasting.
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