How you know when you ready for marriage? Help me understand please?[quote=“6figures_e, post:1, topic:15652, full:true”]
How you know when you ready for marriage? Help me understand please?
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Bright minds wonder the same
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lol. im 9 years married, and still am not ready. its like having kids. you arent ready to take the dive, but you do it for love. sure there are some ways you can prepare for both, but youre never going to check off every box beforehand, or even know what all the boxes are. you may even think you know your potential spouse well, only for them to change over the years or immediately after the wedding day. its hard to be ready. you could be “ready” and still watch the marriage fail eventually. life is full of twists and turns and we want some control, to know we did what we could to prepare and feel ready. but in the end we are going to have some regrets and wisdom that teaches how we could have done better. we dont have much control. its scary for me to keep seeing that. God said to pick one spouse if you cant handle being celibate. 1 Corinthians 7 has a lot of good verses about this topic. read the Bible as to what it says about marriage. in the end, after much prayer, observation, and patience, you might go ahead and marry someone. those are ways you can prepare, but knowing you are ready, might not really come. maybe it will.
Perhaps the biggest contribution to a happy marriage is the ability to let go of selfishness. If a person (particularly in today’s consumer culture) is unable to yield to the needs of another, they may not be ready for marriage.
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