My experience from close friends and family has been that people go into marriage for one set of reasons and come out for another, or rather what you leave is not what you went into. Certainly when you come out you can see it mainly as a property contract, because that is what you have to sort out and when there is a disparity in wealth then it gets silly.
Even though I don't like Mr. Berlusconi, his ex wife's divorce settle ment of something like $130,000 per day makes a mockery of just about everything.
Before the church and the State got involved and tried to control everything in the West, we had betrothal about a year before the wedding. The betrothal was where the families sorted out the deal. The families, no one else. I suppose prenups are something like this, but they are only legal in the UK in so far as they follow UK law, d'uh!
India accounts for something like 40%of all marriage, and 95% of these Rae arranged, so with other cultures also arranging marriages, the majority are arranged and they seem to have less divorce than us.
What does that tell you?