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You need to observe in you both a resolve to stay with each other even when it is hard.
evaluate long enough to see how the relationship survives when drama comes.
Can you disagree in a way that promotes unity, rather than disunity?
You can be crazy about a person, but if the two of you cannot communicate when life gets hard, you are not going to make it.
No two human beings are going to line up perfectly on every conceivable issue.
“Speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way” (4:15).
Distance and time are great friends when trying to discern if commitment is present.
When you share the most wounded and broken parts of you and they respond with empathy and mercy, it can be a powerfully healing moment.
But if you have these waypoints to navigate by—commitment, communication, confession, and community—you enter this exciting relational phase with confidence.
