Question for the marrieds about spouses

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Did you marry someone similar in personality type or quite different ? šŸ¤”
 
This is men from Mars, women from Venus issue for me. I did not look for a spouse but when it happened, it just happened.

We are almost opposite in about everything, one wonder why we ever got married. However, God is good, married life is full of the unexpected, there were ups and downs, tears and laughters, and through it all God is with us as the Lord of our marriage. It is truly a gift.
 
Our basic values were the same, but Iā€™m more extroverted and heā€™s more introverted
 
I think we are similar in some ways and very different in others. I donā€™t think I would want to be married to someone exactly like me as I would find them very annoying.
 
I married someone very different to myself. I have since met someone very similar to myself. I probably could be happily married to him. But I married the first guy.
 
Different in his personality, but really similar in interests and world view.
 
Haha, he lives thousands of miles away, so I donā€™t think weā€™re an ideal match!
 
My wife and I are so drastically different weā€™re almost the same. šŸ˜

Iā€™ve learned over the years of our marriage that what I viewed as her quirks and differences were probably things about myself Iā€™d been reluctant to address.
 
If you marry your best friend, you will be excited to wake up every morning.
 
Quite different.

Itā€™s said that marriage should be like a rock tumbler, refining away the rough edges of our personality, yet slowly revealing the beauty that God put into each soul. Marriage in this sense makes saints. A conversion machine.

The idea that we should wait until we find our perfect soulmate is a popular secular myth designed to give us an excuse to delay the ā€œrefinementā€ needed in us, to allow us to continue to live largely a self-focused lfe, pleasing ourselves, staying comfortable in our routine and circumstances.

I agree that the perfect soulmate idea is a wrong-headed myth. We should reject the secular myth and move forward into breach of marriage. Compatibility, yes, in terms of moral matters, but in the end we need to get converted into the image of Jesus Christ through our marriage, and that can often be hard and humbling work.
But itā€™s work that has to be done if we want to be truly closer to God, and live with Him forever.
 
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I would imagine many spouses can grow alike in nature over the years as they compliment one another too ?
 
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