Wife-Warrantee, Girlfriend- Guarantee? A Hindu perspective.

“Wife-Warrantee means if you got a product (wife) and there is fault you just can repair it or modified it but you can not change it.
Girlfriend- Guarantee means a product (wife) is not suits you or you don’t like it you can replace it with a new one. “Old people say in my country.
I never heard that a man and woman can be partner not husband and wife. In India if you are living with someone you are supposed to be marry with him/her. When you getting up the particular marriage age,your parents select a bridegroom or bride for you. After that they engage marriage according to their customs.
In Hindu dharma, marriage is viewed as a sacrament and not a contract. Hindu marriage is a life-long commitment of one wife and one husband, and is the strongest social bond that takes place between a man and a woman.
Grahastha Ashram (the householder stage), the second of the four stages of life begins when a man and a woman marry and start a household. For a Hindu marriage is the only way to continue the family and thereby repay his debt to his/her ancestors.
In Hindu view, marriage is not a concession to human weakness, but a means for spiritual growth. Man and woman are soul mates who, through the institution of marriage, can direct the energy associated with their individual instincts and passion into the progress of their souls.
In arranged marriages, the bride and bridegroom are generally selected and chosen by parents or the elders. Being experienced and elderly people, they can perhaps better evaluate the merits of the partners. Left on their own, the boy and the girl, being young, can be led to more transitory rather than long lasting and valuable considerations.
This system of selection by the parents has been criticized because it has been seen that in many cases, parents seek matches on the basis of superior social status and more wealth which would add to their prestige, rather than compatibility on biological or psychological grounds. It is, therefore highly desirable that the boy and the girl should be consulted and the reasons for the selection of jeevansathi discussed with them.
Today the young boys and girls have a deep desire of a perfect marriage. In their would-be jeevansathi, the youngsters want a beautiful face, unmitigated love, devotion and fidelity and also camaraderie and complete self expression. The reality of marriage is not foreseen and when it fails, they put the blame on the parents instead of upon the excessive and naïve demands they make on the marriage.
The parents are morally bound to find mates for their children and the children are obliged to accept the parental choice. The marriage among Hindus is considered a union between two families rather than between two young people. However, two considerations are mostly followed-that the mates must be chosen outside the family and must be within the religion/caste. However, western culture has heavily influenced the youngsters and traditional customs are being ignored in the modern age.
But it still confuses me which is the better- Love marriage or arrange marriage. What you think?