How long did you have to wait for the right 'significant other' person to come along in your life?
(And, by "right," I mean the one God planned for you to spend the rest of your life with.)
Thanks!
2007-09-02 14:34:04 · 26 answers · asked by Life On Wheels 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
When you stop looking, waiting and anticipating they will appear in your life, but as long as you yearn you will attract the wrong ones.
2007-09-02 14:41:02 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I agree with those who said to stop waiting. It is very much like any other calling. If you know God wants you to get married, then trust that He will send one your way. If God gives you a calling to be a missionary in the 3rd world, but makes no immediate road for you to get there, then don't try to rush in---you'll probably mess it up and do more harm than good. Rushing into marriage because you want to be married rather than waiting on the Lord is not wise. marriage, for the Christian, is a binding contract. You can't (rightly) change your mind. Making a mistake through our own impatience is a terrible tradgedy. Let Him work. "Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, Nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him." and how about this one? "Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness. And then all these things shall be added unto you."
Having said that, often we just don't see the answers He's alreay given to our prayers. We ask Him for something, but then fail to recognize the answer because it doesn't look like what we were hoping for. But to answer your question, I met my wife when I was 13. We married at 22.
2007-09-10 08:55:14 · answer #2 · answered by Bible believer 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I went through a series of bad relationships and one bad marriage. After that, I decided to just be single and if it happens, it happens. I was a single mother for 4 years when I met the right man for me. He and I have been together for 8 years and married for 6 1/2 of that. I was NOT looking, and neither was he. In fact, we didn't even live in the same state! You just never know when the right one will come along!
2007-09-10 05:44:08 · answer #3 · answered by Debi N 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hmmm... growing up I always prayed for the right one someday... I didn't want to end up the way my mom was. She has been thru 3 divorces and a lot of boyfriends, and NONE of them even had potential to be her "Mr. Right." She always would settle for the one who didn't seem as good, even tho awesome guys asked her out... she felt like she didn't deserve him tho. So I made it a point to sift thru the weeds, so to speak, and pray along with my own pretty good judgement. The one I am with now is the only one I have ever felt like this for, and we just fit together. It's hard to explain... but I think God did lead us together. We have kinks to work out, but we have came a long way. So 20 years is all it took. I feel lucky.
2007-09-10 14:35:48 · answer #4 · answered by ϑennaß 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well, I met him in high school and it has been an up and down adventure. Nothing is easy,so to say God's plan sounds easy.
It ain't. Some people have significant others for different stages in there life. If you give to easy you don't grow
2007-09-10 14:37:02 · answer #5 · answered by dolly c 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
22 Year's we dated in high school , then had to go our own way .I married 2 time's and have 3 children .He never married .We have been together for 8 year's now ,married for 2 year's . He is the BEST friend that I could ever have ,I don't know why the wait but it was worth it .Only GOD know's we put him first and give him the thank's .PEACE TO YOU
2007-09-02 14:54:17 · answer #6 · answered by grace 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm still waiting too and honestly wish the wait would be over soon. I find it very hard to wait on God's timing but I know that if He doesn't think I'm ready then I'm not.
2007-09-02 15:16:53 · answer #7 · answered by jenny s 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When I gave up looking and decided to ask God what HE wanted for me. Took about 11 years from the time I was 18 to meet him..again. :) I had known him when we were kids, but life happens, and if it's meant to be, it will be.
2007-09-10 00:49:33 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
being as there are more women as there are men and have been that way since Adam and Eve were kicked out of the garden, then I would say that women by definition would have to wait longer than men. Maybe that is why God gave men more than one wife (i.e. King David).
2007-09-10 14:28:57 · answer #9 · answered by Scott 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
And by right I mean that would have to be a wife or leave God out of it.
2007-09-09 05:13:38 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋