Why is 'Marriage' filled with Rules, Rules Rules?

On my wedding day, the chairman of the occasion - during his speech - used about 10 minutes to give us advise on how to behave as we were stepping into the sacred institution called Marriage.

There were lots of 'Don't' and 'You can’t' embedded in his speech. It made me wonder - is there supposed to be a manual for Marriage?

Each and every one of us, at one point or the other, have been advised on how to make our marriages blissful. These advices sound so good and rational when we hear them but at the point where they should be implemented - well, that’s just another story.

Most times, we would have already gone down the opposite path before we remember 'oops, that isn’t what the 'rule' says'.

And these rules paraded about by most people on how to make our marriages wonderful, I beg to differ on some of them. But that will be on another post.

Today, I just want to ask - How come there are just so many rules involved in Marriage.

In my opinion, when you commit to someone, love that person and allow that person to mean the world to you, rules aren’t really necessary. This is because how to make that person happy will just come naturally to you. You wouldn’t need anyone to tell you 'to pay your partner a compliment'. You wouldn’t need anybody to tell you to 'say Am Sorry when you offend that person' or not to shout at that person. All these will just come naturally.

So maybe the rules apply because there are lots of mis-matches or just outright lazy people who just can’t be bothered and hence the guidance to the Land of Bliss