Discerning Marriage - do you agree with this statement?

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I´ve been thinking a lot lately about discerning marriage, and the following statement has hit me as being true. On the other hand, it might be abusive to women, suggesting that I should impose myself on one before I´m really ready. What do you think?

“While it´s right that the Church´s teaching on the ideals of marriage should be as high as heaven, so that we always have something to strive for towards perfection and sanctity in married life, it´s not necessary for a man to be the kind of perfect saint described by the Theology of the Body before embarking on discernment towards marriage.”

Agree,disagree?
 
Eucharisted said:
Perfection is not a prerequisite for vocation.
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That being the case, how far should someone go towards becoming the ideal bachelor on their own before embarking on dating or discernment of marriage? Is there a level that´s too little? I guess quite little, because there are plenty of good people in faithful Catholic marriages who weren´t even practicing their faith at all when they first got married.
 
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That being the case, how far should someone go towards becoming the ideal bachelor on their own before embarking on dating or discernment of marriage? Is there a level that´s too little? I guess quite little, because there are plenty of good people in faithful Catholic marriages who weren´t even practicing their faith at all when they first got married.
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I think if a bachelor or bachelor-ette do everything they can to follow the Lord, and grow in holiness (only One was perfect, and we can strive to be more like Christ in this way) they will be ready for marriage, ready to present themselves as and to a potential spouse. 🙂
 
If everyone waited until they were perfect before they got married, there would be no marriages.
 
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