One cultural view of relationship
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The culture the couple lives in will have expectations upon how the couple should act and think towards each other.
Some cultures expect women to wear covering and not drive. In this example you would see a man who consciously or subconsciously considers himself superior, if nothing else, regarding the things that he is able to do and that she is not.
In western cultures the laws are leveraged to favor to the woman in regard to relationships.
This is shown affecting (in some way great or small) the society in statistics as you see a dramatic decrease in marriage.
Some postulate that the dramatic drop in marriage rates (in Western cultures) is because marriage (contract) offers no benefit to the man and is a major contributor to the drops that are being seen.
Culture view over relationship really matters from the very early age. Any relationship depends on culture how they will behave towards the culture.
In our country India there live many religions so they have different cultures. Some thinks that women will dess up by cover. They will never wear western dresses. Some thinks saree is the best. So when culture is different relationship will be different.