Chandni adivises parents to come clean on why they oppose love marriages:

Given the marriage set up in India, as with other things, it ends up being about every person other than the couple in question. If they have fallen in love despite their differences, they must have found some common ground for themselves, right? Not to say that differences in upbringing, culture cannot spoil a relationship….the point being that it is between those two people. Depending on how conservative, open they are to change, they would, as consenting thinking adult individuals, make their decision. They might choose to be rigid, part ways, give in for the sake of the other or come to some sort of a compromise. To my mind, that is a process that each relationship will go through, before it reaches the plateau of happy harmony, when one finally gets comfortable enough in the relationship, without every difference becoming an issue.