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7 Ways To Know If You’re Married To The Right Partner

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July 3, 2022

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Marriage entails several things, but one the best joy of marriage is finding the right partner. Today, statistics shows that 70% of young couples that go married ends up divorced due to getting connected with the wrong partner.

So when the statistics warn that 50% of even Christian marriages end in divorce, how is it possible to find — and keep — the right one?

Finding the right one to begin with certainly helps! Here are five signs that you married the right person.

Today, we’re gonna be giving you guys 7 good signs to know if truly you’re connected with the right partner in marriage.

1. Spiritual growth

The first sign that you married the right person is that the two of you are still growing with God. Neither of you is resting on past godliness or expecting the other to be the sole spiritual one in the relationship. You’re both committed to God and know that your individual relationships with Him are your own responsibility. Personal spiritual growth lays the solid foundation for growth as a couple and for ultimate success in marriage too.

2. Love that endures

Marriage has its ups and downs, and every marriage will pass through different seasons – seasons of joy, plenty, sorrow, tight budgets, and perhaps even in-law drama. One of the signs that you married the right person is that you love each other through every season — the good days, the bad days, and the “meh” days in between. Your love for each other is the kind of love that endures. A love that is based on who the other person is, not on peripheral things like how he acts or what she does for you or even how happy you feel together. Enduring love is based on the truth of who the other person is. It’s the deepest, truest kind of love because it’s patterned after the love God has for us.

3. Common enjoyment and inspiration

A couple who is right for each other truly likes being together. That may sound silly at first, but glance around and you’ll find a lot of couples who don’t appear to like each other all that much.

If you and your spouse enjoy some things in common, like being in each other’s company, and continue to inspire each other, that’s a beautiful sign you married the right one! Whether it’s hiking, trying the new restaurant downtown, or just laughing at the same silly sitcom, you enjoy being together. And if through that connection you inspire laughter and enjoyment of life, that’s definitely a good sign.

4. Values that align

This is one of the biggies that often gets overlooked. A crucial sign that you married the right person is that you two are a values match. This means the two of you think the same intangibles are important. For my husband and me that’s things like faith, authenticity, creativity, inspiration, never speaking badly about your spouse to another person, being lifelong learners, going big for God.

When you and your spouse align in values, you will pursue life in a way that’s compatible because you consider similar things important. A similar life view makes for strong connection which helps to create a lasting bond — the kind of bond lifelong marriages are made of.

5. Better together than apart

And the biggest sign that you married the right person is that the two of you are better together than apart. In this wild, crazy ride we call life, you’ve discovered that you handle life best side by side. You know deep down that God created you with the other in mind, and you are convinced to the depths of your soul that you can affect the world for God best as a team. You are stronger, smarter, braver, kinder, better versions of yourselves together. And you can happily say, “O magnify the Lord with me and let us exalt his name together” (Psalm 34:3).