However stories of estrangement and suicide lurk behind the smiles of 'happy' marriages, because if matrimony doesn't work out for these couples, they can't go back to the lives they used to lead before getting married.
But matrimony did not stop the way Azzad shuttled between the women, and at one point in the comings and goings, he presented Alonna with divorce papers, which she imprudently signed and came to regret.
If a second marriage doesn't work out, then there's still one more chance to master the art of matrimony.
Matrimony may be great/But there's a certain state/Where's a wedding's bad for your financial health/Where if a marriage doesn't work/The man will always be the jerk/And lucky ladies gather in the wealth.
After all, if marriage didn't require both parties actively agreeing to enter into matrimony, odds are I would have been dragged kicking and screaming down the aisle a long time ago, like many bachelors.
Though clearly a true believer in matrimony, Rauch doesn't make it sound like much fun.
Yet for Gülmay and other victims of early or forced marriage, the price of child matrimony, even culturally and traditionally, does not add up.
This sport does not result in actual matrimony — just a kiss.
Education, they warned, "is tending toward race suicide": "Many a college girl of the finest innate qualities, who sincerely desires to enter matrimony, is unable to find a husband of her own class, simply because she has been rendered so cold and unattractive, so overstuffed intellectually and starved emotionally, that a typical man does not desire to spend the rest of his life in her company".
When Indian women discuss the need to "adjust" to matrimony, they don't just mean adapting to a new husband.
