Marriage is a Social Trap Marriage holds different meaning for different people depending on their perceptions and understandings.

In my opinion marriage is not a social trap. It is a social bond. A bond that brings two families close to each other, a bond that passes our culture from one generation to another, a bond of trust, understanding and respect for each other. Marriage is a sacred bond between 2 individuals who are bonded by love and commitment. Marriage completes the incompleteness. As long as mankind has existed man has always felt a need for having a person with whom he/she could share his feelings with, a person with whom he could plan a family. How so ever independent todays woman has become still at the end of the day she wants a person with whom she can share her happiness and sorrow, someone whom she could call her own. Now a days inter caste marriages have helped bring people from many backgrounds come together, live together and share together. Marriage would be social trap only if two individuals are forced into it without their consent. Further it also depends upon the level of understanding and consideration for each other. If the individuals in a relationship have mutual respect and care for each other then the bond would never look like a trap. Hence in my view marriage is about working together, being together, yet at the same time having independent minds.