The Mission of Marriage
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We should be going at it the other way around. Screen first for friendship. Look for someone who understands you better than you do yourself, who makes you a better person just by being around them. And then explore whether that friendship could become a romance and a marriage.
p.127 God says, "I didn't put a parent and a child in the Garden, I put a husband and a wife. When you marry your spouse, that must supercede all other relationships, even the parental relationship. Your spouse and your marriage must be the number one priority in your life."
Your marriage must be more important to you than anything else. No other human being should get more of your love, energy, industry, and commitment than your spouse.
p.129 When you marry, you commit to becoming a new decision-making unit and to developing new patterns and ways of doing things. If you rigidly impose the patterns that you saw in your own family rather than working together with your spouse to create new ones that fit both of you, you haven't 'left home' yet.
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