It can be by mistake and it is solution too. You can not find answer that will satisfy you from these forums. You are from the society which have best guidance on this subject and any other society can not even dream of its felxity and realism. Though many societies have tried to simplify it by manmade laws but they can not succeed, sofar we see.
Depending on the both, how much they realise their responsiblities and duties towards each other. To respect each other is the first formulla of the chemistry...
Leaving tradition aside, we are afterall humenbeing and are differentiated from the other creatures by this civilized way only. We should adhere to it, to be worth for calling humen..
RE: Describe urself in one word!
Humenbeing