Scandal: When you date or marry outside your social class

It has been argued that for the sake of a happy relationship or marriage, individuals should pick partners in their social classes Photo: Courtesy

A glimpse at newspaper obituary pages reveal that the rich always marry each other. Tales, too, abound of rich parents who hook up their children and subject them to arranged or forced marriages. Seemingly, the reason homes to some rich individuals have electric fences, hawk-eyed watchmen and fierce dogs is not to deter thieves, but to keep love from spilling over to 'hustlers'.

It has been argued that for the sake of a happy relationship or marriage, individuals should pick partners in their social classes. However, there are men and women who, perhaps, take the phrase 'love is blind' quite literally and push their luck way too far by marrying way up or low the social ladder. But those who marry individuals from higher social background seem to be the ones who suffer most.