Practical questions worth asking yourself and your potential spouse before committing to marriage.
Saying yes to a proposal is a big decision, and it is easy to get swept up in excitement or pressure to decide quickly. Before you commit, slow down and ask a few honest questions.
- Faith: Do we agree on how we will practise our faith day to day, not just in theory but in how we actually plan to live?
- Finances: Have we talked openly about money, and are we roughly aligned on how we want to handle it as a couple?
- Family: Do our expectations around children, in-laws and where we will live actually match up?
- Resilience: Can I picture handling a genuinely hard day with this person, not just the good ones?
- Honesty: Have we been honest with each other, even about the things that felt uncomfortable to raise?
None of these questions has a single right answer, but avoiding them tends to cause more problems later than asking them now. A proposal built on honesty from the start gives a marriage a much stronger foundation.