Posted on 09/30/2015 2:40:51 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The grass is always greener on the other side but, in fact, it is crab grass and nastier to get rid of than the decent seed you originally sowed.
True. We don’t have “soul mates,” we have “commitment mates.”
The whole soulmate idea is just snother symptom of our narcissistic culture.
Better to find someone who has similar interests and especially similar goals in life.
I’m planning on just finding someone who is more afraid of dying alone than I am :D
Yeah its all about soul mate stuff la la land stuff & nobody has kids. If you want to change the world the best thing you can do is raise as many God fearing, God loving kids as you can. That will be your everlasting gift to God, and your best legacy to the world. The earth belongs to those who inherit it. Whom would you rather inherit it?
How do they define Christian? Many secular social clubs and false teachers call themselves Christian.
As a lifelong bachelor I am not cognizant of all the issues here. But it seems to me that if the partners don’t agree on a serious commitment to God, it’s going to be a throw of the dice whether it can work, or at the least keep from plunging into severe dysfunction.
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Actually it is. But people get confused.
It is not what all I can get out of it.
It is about what all I can put into it.
Yes. Churchianity is the fastest growing Religion in both North America and Europe
I read an anecdote about a dating service that made a very serious effort to do just that. They met once, parted friends, and never dated again. Afterwards the gal said it was like meeting a long-lost brother!
There’s something a bit different between a marriage dynamic and a friends dynamic, but of course only IMHO as a crufty old bachelor....
WOW! Never thought of that! Don’t forget Andy was a LEO and a widower. Just saying...
>>Better to find someone who has similar interests and especially similar goals in life.<<
Not interests — VALUES. My wife and I have widely divergent interests. But our values (frugality and hating debt at the top of the list) mesh perfectly. These also include fidelity (there are many whose values include “open relationships”), honesty, marriage before sex, putting children first, humans protecting animals who can’t protect themselves (except good eating ones which we only ask they be put down painlessly), and other of the like.
Her politics cut more independent, mine conservative. She hates Trump, I can’t wait for his next public appearance and might actually vote for him.
I point out the latter to note that we share VALUES but not necessarily OPINIONS.
Excellent!
Christian divorce rates are among the lowest in the US population.
It’s easy to find the data in a search.
BINGO!!! I have lived it. I did not make her happy. She deserved to be treated like a princess (her words, not mine) and I did not treat her that way. I could go on for hours. . . . Bottom line, it is selfishness, from either side, that threatens marriage.
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