Love is evil, love anyone! This is a well-known saying. It often happens that a couple who at first glance has nothing in common converges and even marries. What is the result of this?
About the concept
Probably all people have heard such a thing as "misalliance." This is a term that simply means unequal marriage. Previously , exclusively socially unequal marriages were called so, today this term has somewhat transformed and expanded its borders.
Social misalliance
The most common and ancient form of unequal marriage is considered social misalliance. This is a union of people from different social strata, from different classes. An example would be a couple consisting of a simple worker at a construction site and a professor's daughter, the son of a diplomat and the daughter of an ordinary rural milkmaid. It should be noted that such relationships very rarely cross the line of acquaintance with parents, because often the relatives of the more “strong” side are doing their best to get rid of the wrong half of their child.
Intelligent Mesalliance
Quite interesting is the intellectual misalliance - it is a union of people with different levels of mental development. It is noteworthy that if a stupid woman is paired with an intelligent man, this is normal. A man stands out against his wife, and this is considered normal. However, if a woman is more intelligent than her husband, they will often regret the lady, because in modern (as yet patriarchal) society it is believed that the family is led by a man. But how can he be the head of the family if he is poor in mind?
National Mesalliance
The next subspecies of unequal relations is national misalliance. This is a marriage of people of different nationalities. Now you can’t surprise anyone with an interethnic marriage , but before such relationships were rare: few people wanted to “mix” their blood. The problems in such marriages are quite large, because it is often very difficult to combine the rites and traditions of different nations, and most of the conflicts arise on religious grounds.
Political Mesalliance
A fairly new type is the political misalliance in marriage. It arose on our territory after the collapse of the Soviet Union, when there was one party. Today, there are many of them, as well as political views and moods. The union of people with different political views is also called political misalliance.
Household misalliance
There is also a household misalliance. Almost any pair can be attributed to this type of relationship. A clean woman and a bewildered man who scatters his socks everywhere; female pacifist and male military and so on. There are many variations of household misalliance.
pros
In any situation, you can find both your cons and pros. If a couple that is not equal by certain criteria wants to be together (what to do, these are the games of fate), the mesalliance is not so scary. A huge plus may be the fact that one of the partners, which is clearly losing against the other, will begin to strive for a higher level. This perfectly disciplines and forces the personality to develop, and self-improvement has not done any harm to anyone.