THE ONE, Soulmate, Prince Charming, Princess Charming, The right guy?

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But we worked hard at our marriage because underneath it all was that firey teenage love that pulled us together. I’m the kind of person that needs that fire. …]I think different people need different things and you have to find the right fit for the person your are. I have a friend who’s never been the warm, fuzzy, goo-goo type person. She’s very practical and she married some one who is very practical, a very good provider, gives her a lot of security and she seems very happy with that.

I think people can be happy in different types of marriages, you just have to find the right fit.
Yeah. There are people who need the fire, there are people who need the calm breeze and there are fussers like yours truly, who want both because there’s a time of sowing and a time of harvest. 😛 The latter tend to stay single for who knows what reason. :rolleyes: 😛
 
…fussers like yours truly, who want both because there’s a time of sowing and a time of harvest. 😛 The latter tend to stay single for who knows what reason. :rolleyes: 😛
Because it takes longer for us to find our soulmate! I met mine when I was 42!

God bless you,

Ruthie
 
I met my husband who was 17 at the time. I felt comfortable, it felt like I had met some I had known all my life. And from that day forward there was no one else for me.

underneath it all was that firey teenage love that pulled us together. I’m the kind of person that needs that fire.

I think God did have a hand in me finding my hubby.
Anyway he feels like my soulmate to me. I don’t know, I’m sure I could have loved someone else…if I had been living in a different state or country or whatever. I just can’t imagine being with anyone else.
Wow…I could have written this nearly word for word. My DH and I have also been together since we were both 17, though we waited until after college to marry. I know just what you mean about that fiery teenage love still being there underneath, and needing that fire. We have SUCH a strong physical connection (and we too did some things in the wrong order because of that 😊 ), unlike anything I ever felt with any other boyfriend. I only had a few, but it was enough to learn what I wouldn’t put up with. 😉 I too think God led us to each other, especially as the Church played a big part in our relationship and still does. He is my soul mate… call me a hopeless romantic, but I do think he is my “one” and I am his.

We had that reading from the Song of Songs at our wedding, about “my beloved is mine and I am hers.” I gave him a right-hand ring with that verse on it in Latin, and he wears it every day. ❤️
 
Well, the Church does have marriage laws, so our free will is limited right there.
Those laws are necessary and they are there because of laws of God, not because of concern for those who can’t find a mate or because of a certain category of people being deemed improper choice of mates. The laws regarding defects of consent do not limit free will, they promote it. The laws regarding form and lack of it limit free will to the extent that you can’t make up your own form, impediments are there because of divine law and certain ecclesiastic laws - can’t marry relatives, can’t marry someone already married, can’t marry a person with religious orders. Hardly news and hardly a gross and arbitrary restriction on free will. But if the Church were to start mandating who’s good for you and who’s not, that would be a different thing. Also, to make laws for women because men can’t find mates - or the other way round - would be untheological because people need to be goals in themselves, not means of achieving a goal. Person X is as much of a son or daughter of the Church as person Y and you can’t make laws for X with the purpose for Y to find a mate more easily.
However, does God have ONE AND ONLY ONE intended for us, or is it a case of many would be good for us and we are free to choose form them, similar to what He told to Adam “you may eat of any fruit in the garden except for the one in the middle”?
Adam already had a wife, so I don’t really know why you are reaching for that kind of biblical argument. Barring discussion of biblical reference, the answer is, “I don’t know,” and I believe that’s the right answer. We may imagine this or that, but I think there’s insufficient data to say yes or no.
 
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