Married at First Sight

Is anyone on here watching MAFS Season 18 US?
They have a pastor on there as an expert and I'm a Christian and I used to believe that he wouldn't participate in anything that was a train wreck on purpose to marry these folks together but I don't know anymore I don't trust him.
They have a terrible success rate and this season is turning out so bad.

I can see why dating today is terrible. People are delusional and selfish

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BohemianBabe · M

The fact that it was successful enough to even make a second season really says something about humanity. 😣

REMsleep · 41-45, F

@BohemianBabe What does it say about humanity??
There's been arranged marriages since the beginning of time probably and if I actually trusted those experts which I don't and if I needed to get married I would potentially trust a Matchmaker.

calicuz · 56-60, M

@REMsleep

Yes, but arranged marriages in other cultures have centuries of culture to go along with the tradition.
Whereas in the Western World, we have been progressing away from traditions, and creating an entirely new 21st century society. A society that can implement arranged marriage, but that would be a very slow process to integrate it back into our society.

REMsleep · 41-45, F

@calicuz and what do you think of our new improved industrialized commercialized 21st century society?

calicuz · 56-60, M

@REMsleep

We can make it work, but we need to get back to discussing our differences.
Believe it or not, I am in favor of arranged marriages, I just don't see it fitting into a modern Western World. If I chose arranged marriage for myself, I would seek it out in a different culture.

REMsleep · 41-45, F

@calicuz That's sad because America culture is in a decline because it is too much based on and affected by the ills of capitalism.

BohemianBabe · M

@calicuz

Yes, but arranged marriages in other cultures have centuries of culture to go along with the tradition.

Those marriages involve a long period where the engaged people get to know each other and either person is able to call off the wedding. That's a far cry from a reality show where people get married to total strangers.

REMsleep · 41-45, F

@BohemianBabe Not every culture's arranged marriage has this waiting period. I have known Indian people who did not meet their spouses until the wedding day. They only saw a picture and spoke on the phone a couple of times. They depended of the family to make a match. My coworker was that way. Her uncle went back to India and found her a husband in the early 1980s

calicuz · 56-60, M

@BohemianBabe

Yes, that's what I was trying to say, you just said it better. I was going to include the reality tv part, but that would have led me in a new direction of bashing western television. 😅

calicuz · 56-60, M

@REMsleep

Yes, but when it comes to marriage, no one way is better than the other. The divorce rate around the world in most cultures, and among all religions is still 50%. So we really can't say that one cultures practices that lead to marriage is better than anyone else's.

calicuz · 56-60, M

@REMsleep

That's sad because America culture is in a decline because it is too much based on and affected by the ills of capitalism.

Yes, that's what happens when we stop caring about people. We are not people to Corporate America, we are "consumers."

BohemianBabe · M

@REMsleep

Not every culture's arranged marriage has this waiting period. I have known Indian people who did not meet their spouses until the wedding day.

That's about just as bad. Turning it into a reality TV show circus makes it worse, but marrying someone you just met is super trashy, no matter the culture.
But again, that's the exception. Arranged marriages usually have a long engagement period.