Gone are the days when the family favored good-old traditional marriages arranged through a family pundit or a marriage broker. Nowadays, gender equations have changed, women empowerment is everywhere to be seen, and both boys and girls are well-educated and can make informed choices.

So, when the dating app TrulyMadly surveyed pan-Indian mothers, it was a pleasant surprise that 84 percent of mothers in Hyderabad were for love marriages vis-a-vis mothers in other parts of India. Just about 50 percent of mothers elsewhere were for love marriages.

Also, about 37 percent of mothers from Hyderabad were receptive to their children finding their life partners through dating apps. The whole idea behind the survey was to gauge the stigmas attached to marriages in India.

It was also found that about 45 percent of mothers worried more about the marriage of their children than their fathers. About 70 percent of female and 80 percent of male respondents from tier-1 and tier-2 cities said their mother preferred love marriages. Incidentally, mothers from non-metros like Jaipur, Indore, and Lucknow, among others, were supportive of their daughters’ choices. While 55 percent of mothers pressurized their sons, 53 percent of mothers pressurized their daughters for marriage.

Snehil Khanor, CEO and co-founder of TrulyMadly, shares that mothers who were assumed to be shackled in age-old traditions have finally managed to shake them off.