I feel interestingly about this statement by the Judge. We are a free country, though and if we don't like what he has to say, we are free to reject his idea.
Interestingly, from Mr. Arup's above post, I agree with the way he has defined marriage and what it entails with respect to staying together. However, I also find myself in a truly unique situation where my marriage only seems to work as long as my spouse and I meet and stay together occassionally and spend more time being independent and doing/living as we like. It bothers a lot of people around us, his family and my parents too but this is the only thing that works.
Right after we were married, I did as he asked, left my job for him and joined him at this place of work. I can safely say that the first 2.5 years of our marriage were sheer disaster. It was a love marriage but I didn't know a lot of things about him, including that he was very cruel, excessively dominating and enjoyed making me feel bad on purpose (I've posted details in other threads so not repeating here). Having come back from the brink of divorce and separation twice now, I know that if he and I stay married, we will have to have a very different marriage, one that has it's own unique rules that suit the both of us and allow us to be together at the same time.
I do have the option of living with him, but he has clearly time and again given me a list of things that I must do, in addition to giving up my life, lifestyle, interests and completely transform into a silent partner if I am to live with him. Surprisingly, he respects me more when I stand up for myself than when I am dependent on him and feeling upset because he behaves cruelly.
It might not make me Sita, or even a good wife in many peoples' eyes , it makes our marriage much more challenging than a normal couples' but the truth is, I do love my spouse and if this is the one way in which we can have our marriage survive and still be happy, I'm fine with it.
It's not so much about the age, century we live in, but the way my marriage is, has made me realise that it is ONLY the couple that really knows what their marital relationship is like and they need to figure out a way to co-exist with each other, even if those rules don't make a lot of sense to other people.