Love marriage means skyrocket divorces and clueless children's
Things are not that easy brother.
I have seen married couples breaking up after 40 years of marriage having 5 kids because of the most trivial things. A turkish grandfather divorcing his wife because she didn't give him money for the car of his cousin back in Turkey and stuff like that (arranged marriage).
One of my colleagues was married to his school crush knowing each other since 6th grade or so. The marriage lasted 12 months and they filed for divorce 2 weeks after their daughter was born (love marriage).
On the ohter hand I know people who married after having an "accident" (i. e. baby on the way) in their late teens who are still togehter (late 40ies now).
And yes, my parents also had an arranged marriage (there is a big difference between arranged and forced!). 35 years and couting alhamdulillah
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The divorce stats in the West are crazy, literally everbody I know was either divorced or had multiple partners in his life time. The thing is maybe many couples are only together for "logh kya kahe ghe" or because one partner depends on the other, but in the West you have the state as sugar daddy. Relationships are just products of the throwaway society (I like that word, because it's so true). You have your first minor crisis (emphasis is on minor not domestic abuse and stuff like that)? Divorce and break-up it is! Alimony will be paid by my partner and if not the state will provide for me. No need to fix anything and create a stable society. Stable societies depend on stable families. That's a fact. You can check the stats to that. The state subsidizes such toxic immature behaviour with lots of tax payer money.
And nobody cares about the kids. In German we have word for those kids: "Scheidungswaise" ("Scheidung" meaning divorce and "Waise" meaning orphan).
Our Deen teaches us how to be good husbands and wives, how to conduct marriage and other simple rules in regards to that. Islam is not about gender segregation, most of our traditions come from old pagan rituals and Islam came to bury those rituals!
I am not into romantic facebook post, but I really liked that one
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May Allah help us all to find a rightous spouse and may he grant all of us a happy marriage life who already found the one