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One of my friends was chatting with me last night. He’s got two girls that he loves. They are both catholic and nice. He just doesn’t know which one he should marry.

If you were him, who would you pick. What are you standards to pick a spouse?
 
One of my friends was chatting with me last night. He’s got two girls that he loves. They are both catholic and nice. He just doesn’t know which one he should marry.

If you were him, who would you pick. What are you standards to pick a spouse?
He sounds a bit fickle to me. Love, true and unconditional love for one person for life are the standards.
 
To be blunt if he is really unsure maybe its neither of them. I think you know when you have met the person you want to marry and with that person you wouldnt consider marrying someone else.
 
If he isn’t sure, then he probably isn’t ready to marry either of them. To pick one when he isn’t sure isn’t fair to him, either girl, or the sacrament. Random quote that comes to mind is don’t marry the person you can live with, marry the person you can’t live without. When he knows the person he can’t live without (after the initial infatuation has passed), then that’s who he should marry.
 
If he isn’t sure, then he probably isn’t ready to marry either of them. To pick one when he isn’t sure isn’t fair to him, either girl, or the sacrament. Random quote that comes to mind is don’t marry the person you can live with, marry the person you can’t live without. When he knows the person he can’t live without (after the initial infatuation has passed), then that’s who he should marry.
If he shouldn’t marry neither of them, then what should he do for now?
 
I had a similar problem. But I got closer and closer to one of the girls, and now, she is my girlfriend. Prayer was a big helper 🙂
 
What if he thinks he can live with either one of them forever?
Sorry if this is too blunt, but if this is the case, then he is not ready for marriage. He sounds too immature for marriage. Fortunately this isn’t (or doesn’t have to be) a permanent state.

The whole “can’t live without” test or whatever isn’t a literal thing and has to be applied in context. The person who coined the phrase was saying “don’t settle”.

I might suggest he look at what he is bringing to the relationship. Right now he’s missing something key- fidelity.
If he shouldn’t marry neither of them, then what should he do for now?
Back off and pray. He should give himself some time to grow up a bit. I’m not suggesting he is totally immature but in this area he has some growing up to do.

There are books he could read but it also could help if he talked to couples that have been married awhile. What about his parents? If they are not the best models then someone from church maybe.
 
One of my friends was chatting with me last night. He’s got two girls that he loves. They are both catholic and nice. He just doesn’t know which one he should marry.

If you were him, who would you pick. What are you standards to pick a spouse?
do the girls know about one another? If not, it’s very unfair of him to be seeing two women at the same time, and not being up front with those women. The worst way to enter into a marriage, is to enter into it not being completely truthful to who you’re marrying. If they do know about one another–this sounds like an episode of The Bachelor. I can’t imagine wanting to marry someone who was seeing another woman, at the same time he’s seeing me, PLUS, he’s in love with us both. This sounds like a recipe for disaster, and I agree with others–doesn’t sound like he’s ready for marriage. :o
 
One of my friends was chatting with me last night. He’s got two girls that he loves. They are both catholic and nice. He just doesn’t know which one he should marry.

If you were him, who would you pick. What are you standards to pick a spouse?
If it were my situation, I would question myself whether I truly love any of them. I confirm that it is possible to love two persons at the same time in some way, but I’m not sure it’s what you can call love in the true sense.

Less than half an hour ago, I was thinking about my own matters and I realised that I had some residual feelings for my ex-girlfriend, as well as a girl I spent some evenings with when I was 18 and 19, which is a good couple of years ago. Do I really “love” any? Who knows. I don’t want to be with either and neither of them is good for me. I wouldn’t lie if I said, “not interested.” What does this mean for your friend? Perhaps he’s extremely fond of both girls and can’t bear the thought of giving one up if he chooses the other? I don’t really know what to do in such a situation except for praying for discernment.
I had a similar problem. But I got closer and closer to one of the girls, and now, she is my girlfriend. Prayer was a big helper 🙂
In my case, it was decided on the reciprocation I was getting. By this I mean general interest and responsiveness. One of them wasn’t really dying to find time to meet me.
do the girls know about one another? If not, it’s very unfair of him to be seeing two women at the same time, and not being up front with those women.
As long as it just seeing and talking, perhaps that’s right, but as I see it, having a romantic relationship (where you kiss, hug, own up to each other, write love letters and so on) with two people at the same time is already a problem of itself. I would never consent to such an arrangement. As far as there is no justified impression of a romantic relationship, I would not necessarily see telling as obligatory. The moment people need to know about one’s conflicting feelings is when people rely on one of one’s feelings. And this is precisely because people aren’t meant for polygamy.
 
One of my friends was chatting with me last night. He’s got two girls that he loves. They are both catholic and nice. He just doesn’t know which one he should marry.

If you were him, who would you pick. What are you standards to pick a spouse?
he should not even consider marriage until he learns the difference between attraction, infatuation and real genuing life-long sacrificial love. when he does learn this the dilemma will disappear because he will know his vocation and be sure of the one to whom he wishes to give his whole self.
 
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