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MsSara -> RE: ready for marriage? (4/22/2008 9:59:58 AM)
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ORIGINAL: NoDumbBlonde
When are you ready for marriage?
1. When you have become the person you want to become (education, career, etc.).
2. When a partner becomes an asset and not a requirement to your own happiness.
3. When you cannot imagine life without them and see yourself growing old together.
4. When you are willing to give 100% 100% of the time regardless of how much/little they give or how you feel.
5. When you can share openly without any fear all your hopes and dreams, fears and failures, thoughts and feelings.
6. When there are no red flags in the back of your mind about ANYTHING.
7. When you realize that this person is truly your BFF.
8. When the Holy Spirit confirms that this is the person God has chosen for you.
9. When you realize that divorce is NOT an option and that the marriage covenant is for life.
10. When you realize that you won't be right all the time and that its ok if you're not.
11. When you realize that its more important that they can be themselves instead of who and what you want them to become.
12. When you can put their needs above your own.
13. When you can love and respect them even when you don't feel like it.
14. When you realize that they are not a child and you are not their parent but their partner.
15. When they are ready too.
That's when you are ready for marriage! [:)]
Been there, done that, got the t-shirt!
I think this is good advice but I would definitly have to say that numbers 8 and 9 should be numbers 2 and 3 and number 1 should say when you've become the person God wants you to be.
The best way to know when you've got the right one is when you have found someone who through your relationship together you both grow closer to God. That's what its all about because in the end its you and God, not you and your partner.
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