Live-in relationships can be difficult and challenging. It begins with the attraction of a man and a woman to each other. Popularly it is referred to and defined as love. This sentiment need not necessarily manifest itself in physical form. The visual attraction in drawing one to the other is, however, obvious. Sometimes this sentiment of love evolves into a formal physical manifestation, and marriage is one of the outcomes. From marriage, children may be born with identifiable parenthood. Conventionally this is how societies over the world have practiced man-women relationships.
This, again raises issue of the nature of relationships, and ‘love’ again becomes an oft referred ingredient. The ‘identifiable’ father and mother have a natural protective instinct towards the new-born. The act of procreation rolls on to a new generation coming into existence, growing and thereby continuing the cycle of life. This is a specific form of human relationship quite distinct from a ‘relationship between just a man and a woman’. To the same couple,...
