I didn't downrate it at first.

However, after reading it again and seeing not only profanity but the claim that 999/1000 marriages were abusive, I decided it deserved a downvote because it makes typical marriages of the past seem like a hell.

Also, complaints about rep are often worthy of downrates.

Ditto

Well Obviously, when parents do arrange marries pretty much they are saying "I don't trust you, you are not mature enough to make the biggest decision in your life.":baby:  The kids are in charge of there life, they choose what they do.  

A marriage into which one or both parties was forced or coerced is invalid.  I know of an unfortunate situation in which a woman was left ill and abandoned after 37 years and five children.  The husband met a woman two years the senior of his oldest adult child, and got an annulment because the novus ordo priests were convinced that it was a case of coercion by his wife's parents.  They had been "set-up" while stil in high school and fell into sin.  The fact that he chose to stay with her for 36 years and raise four more children was apparently meaningless, as was the fact that his wife had terminal cancer and was unable to support  herself.  There is a reason why Catholics do not formally "arrange" marriages.  If it's a mess now, imagine if Traditionals begin to "set their children up.". Introductions and input are welcomed and commendable, "arrangements" are not!
Just my opinion...What do others think?

Yes, Catholic marriage is a free decision on the part of the spouses. The priest has the responsibility to ascertain whether or not the prospective spouses freely agree to the marriage. If not, there could be grounds for annullment.

But I think you confuse the issue here with this example in which annullment is unjustified and unjust. They were "set up" and fell into sin.  Not quite sure what that means.

Some people here seem to equate arrangement with coercion. They are not the same thing.

I cannot see why you assume that things would be worse if marriages were arranged, (of course with the agreement of the prospective spouses), than they are in the hit and miss methods employed today by unwise, naive, starry-eyed or sex-hardened youngsters, with little appreciation of the spiritual aspects of marriage.

Also you seem to equate Catholics with Moderns when you say "... Catholics do not formally "arrange" marriages". Are you sure about that?

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However, after reading it again and seeing not only profanity...

You do realize and assent to the well-established concept that vulgarity, in se, is not actually sinful, do you not? It may not be ideal, but it is not as big of a deal as most Trads seem to think.

Tele, why not simply admit you cannot even begin to gainsay one iota of what I have said about the intrinsic sinlessness of vulgarity?  Still, I readily admit that it is better to avoid the use of such terms.  For having done so, I beg the pardon of the forum owner and membership.  Godspeed and goodbye.

Pax vobiscuм :)