How do you know your partner is the one you want to marry?

Question

How do you know your partner is the one you want to marry?

Answer 1

Date for at least 2 years (not long distance).  Spend alot of time together - in all different situations.  This is the only way to really get to know each other - which is extremely important.  If you have any doubt about marrying the person - dont do it.  

Answer 2

you NEVER KNOW.  That's where faith comes in

Answer 3

You'll know, trust me.

Answer 4

I look forward to seeing him. I enjoy the time we spend together. I love him as much as I can. I know he loves me just as much. I worry about him, when he's working late or away from me. And most importantly, I cannot imagine living the rest of my life without him in my life. That's how I know he's the one!

Answer 5

Because I can feel that he is my first true love and soulmate. He is the one and only one for me.

I had one serious boyfriend before, but it does not feel like that at all.  

Answer 6

by observing how u reacted to the hard times u had, and how willing u r to be with that person. know if its real love or just s*x

its complicated, im still trying to figure it out

im in an archie betty veronica sich

Answer 7

Frankly, you shop.  You have a list of things that you find important in a partner... mine looked like this:

a job he liked

educated

non-smoker

no kids left to raise, or none at all

no ex still hanging around

adequate income

even tempered

hobbies he liked to do even if I didn't wish to go.

This rather eliminated guys with kids, uneducated biker hill billies dudes, rude idiots, and the abusive.

Have all these things, and they got a second date.  If any red flags came up, anyone could see them by the end of the third date.  

Did I marry men like this?  Absolutely.  

"The most important decision you will ever make is who you marry.  Chose with your head as well as your heart."  Thank you mama.

Answer 8

Ask me to marry you and find out. ha ha

Answer 9

I think the commitment required to make a marraige happy is greater than your indecision, and unfair to your partner who perhaps deserves someone who loves them completely.

Answer 10

You feel this from your inside honey,,,when on hearing on,,,looking at,,,or even thinking of someone sends shivers in your body and and soul and you couldnt do anything else than sighing then you get to know that this is the person you want to get married and and spend your life with...samjhe?

Answer 11

If you can't imagine life without that person and that when you are around them you feel better and everything in the world seems right.

Answer 12

when you are not cold anymore

Answer 13

when you can HONESTLY envision them in your life forever. when you know you'd still love them if they physically changed (weight gain, balding, amputee, bad skin). when you just feel calm around them and feel like you could talk to them about anything. when you can see that they'd be good parents (if you want kids). when you know that they would take the vows to heart.

It's hard to be honest about someone you care about. I have had three very long relationships but looking back I knew deep down they were lacking in what I wanted in a spouse, I just refused to see it then. Now I'm older and am done sugar coating things. I am honest with myself and with my BF because I have to be at this point. My BF fits into everything I said above and I am at peace with whatever happens, and when it happens.

Answer 14

You dont. Its the decision made.

Answer 15

You can see every day of your life waking up by his/her side.

You dont question it(like you are(sorry))

Answer 16

You'll know. If you are not sure then it is either the wrong person or the wrong time. DON'T do it if you are not dead bang sure...

Answer 17

All I want for my 75th birthday is to wake up and look into his blue eyes.

That and because he accepts me exactly the way I am.

Answer 18

When I saw him i knew he was the one for me. I knew he was the one when I saw how he treated other people and was around kids and how he dealt with troubles when they came. I knew and found that he was mature and was ready to settle down and was able to keep communication even when he was pissed off. The love he showed for others was amazing and looking at all this made me have the wonderful husband that i have now. Hes put up with alot and would never change him for the world!! Ups and downs always come in relationships but how you and the other person deal with them is what matters most. Good luck to everyone out there and hang in there.

*Mother of 2 year old girl and 32 weeks with a boy.

*Married 4 years this september (coming around the corner)  :)