Speaking to youngsters, one can clearly see the dooming credibility of the institution of marriage. Couples today admit that they had issues even in the courtship. How can the undealt issues be dragged in a marriage, which in India is a 7 birth committment. So that means the issues will have their impact for next 7 seven births.

With a stranger , we do not take 7 seconds to flare up and react irrationally, but we can be indifferent to our partner who will stay with us for a lifetime. Marriage is somewhere lost its purpose, and why not, no one is there to tell and no one is there who knows it. Marriage is only confined to wedding function and frills. It is all about a fancy dress competition and the celeberation. What for, no one knows. People forget the couple, and the whole show is about "the hitek buffet", the glamour. Nowhere the couple are told why are they following all the processess.

Couples come to us( marriage counsellor) with issues which sometimes they laugh reciting. Deployed at senior management levels in big corporates, they make billion dollar decisions, excute country wide plans, resolve grave issues amongst a 1000 employees. But to their own life, they act indifferently, when at work, they talk about employee engagement. They practice theories of rewarding and compensation in HR departments, but fail to acknowledge small , precious gestures of their life partners.

Why is all this happening ? Because they are themselves starving for love or they do not know what is love. Their work profiles have educated them to sense what they are entitled for - the CTCs, perks. But they have somehow lost human touch. It is all about emails, chats, video conferencing. They have their team huddles, but no family dinning table talks. And this is what they have to offer or not to offer in their marriage.

They result is marriage starving for love. A mass movement needs to be brought in this country around re-inforcing the meaning, purpose of marriage. Couples need to be oriented to the councept of marriage. The system should help individuals and couples to grow. People like us should come up together and fight against this indifference to such a vital part if life.