future thoughts/worries about relationships...

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Have you ever worried/thought about being "good enough" for your significant other?


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ultrasann

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Dec 8, 2013
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I'd love to know if anyone here has thoughts along the lines of "will I ever be a good enough husband/wife or even a good enough father/mother?" I don't dwell on these thoughts, and I certainly don't worry about them...I hope.

P.S. - also, does anyone have issues with not trusting God with bringing you a spouse and/or giving you the wisdom to pick someone suitable? [of course they're NOT going to be "the one" (because they're human). So, get that perfectionist stuff out of here. LOL]
 

Liamson

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I think about it all the time. Part of the reason I learned to cook was so that I would have that tool in my bag.

I try and find my own inadequacies and build them up. In the same way, I don't like running into something that I know nothing about.

Its sort of a motivator for me.

So yeah, I think about it all the time.
 
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isaria

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I never feel this.
I am confident i make wonderful wife and mother.
Spiritually and soulfully and on many and all levels.
And where i lack or if i make mistake i correct and repent.


I feel husband and children get me may feel blessed.


Although I may need get my aura and eon etc back........ lol to be myself again...
so best she/they be given back whom am.....

mmm hmmmm

naaasty.
 
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isaria

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If i am bad I be corrected and repent and improve be better wife and mother.
If one is to bad one may not be forgiven and divorse may occur.
But one may have to be pretty evil for a very long time for that to happen.

It may be natural people worry.

Thoughtful, concideration is one things i love most such attribute such as oh a glass water you dont drink enough....
little things.
price less little things are ever so highly held and not so little after all.
 
May 3, 2013
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I think about it all the time. Part of the reason I learned to cook was so that I would have that tool in my bag.
Good! That´s an asset someone would consider when looking at you. He! He!

Many girls like their men involved in housekeeping. I do all my chores ans I rather like be selfsufficient to avoid they say anything like: "I have done these things for you"

As long as I live I´ll be selfsufficient. Of corse, I´m perfect in nothing.
 
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Ugly

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Yeah. I suffer from that any time i think about it.

And give it a little time. You'll realize at least once a week a new thread is posted on 'i'm doomed to be single, i'm never going to find the one' thing. Everyone is waiting for their non-existent soul mate. And even worse the majority of these posts are 15-24 year olds.
 
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jeremyPJ

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Yes I tend to worry about it. Just got saved this summer, and the people in my church are some of the friendliest I've been around in many years. The factories I worked in had some very nasty people in them, I tried to fit with them but always failed miserably, despite being a nice, decent looking man. I came from a decent family, but the women I dated always wanted to play head games with me, but not take me seriously. Maybe because I'm only 5'6", always seem to get disrespected for that.

Married my wife at 30yo, she was 22, and had two boys from a previous marriage. Their dad taught them to be crappy to me, so I would leave and he could come back. Her sister and in-law were older, and were the "pride" of the family, they let me know where I stood. After having two miscarriages, we had a daughter who was healthy. As soon as we found out she was a healthy baby (4 mo. in womb) that's when things changed. Her sis and coworkers wanted her to play on me, so she did. So lots of heartache for me while I kept the marriage alive for my daughter's sake. Had a stroke @ the age of 44, my girl was seven. Now, after five years of bankruptcy (my disability did everything they could to get out of paying me, but with my Mom's help we got the full two years. Wife got new friends, more evil than ever, my divorce should be final next week. I can't wait! But I am scared...I'm afraid I won't find a decent woman. The effects of my stroke are gone now, finally. But women seem so very picky nowadays, and I am very good looking and nice, but short. So I plan on working out and being the absolute best I can be, maybe a truly good woman will value me.
 
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Ugly

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Yes I tend to worry about it. Just got saved this summer, and the people in my church are some of the friendliest I've been around in many years. The factories I worked in had some very nasty people in them, I tried to fit with them but always failed miserably, despite being a nice, decent looking man. I came from a decent family, but the women I dated always wanted to play head games with me, but not take me seriously. Maybe because I'm only 5'6", always seem to get disrespected for that.

Married my wife at 30yo, she was 22, and had two boys from a previous marriage. Their dad taught them to be crappy to me, so I would leave and he could come back. Her sister and in-law were older, and were the "pride" of the family, they let me know where I stood. After having two miscarriages, we had a daughter who was healthy. As soon as we found out she was a healthy baby (4 mo. in womb) that's when things changed. Her sis and coworkers wanted her to play on me, so she did. So lots of heartache for me while I kept the marriage alive for my daughter's sake. Had a stroke @ the age of 44, my girl was seven. Now, after five years of bankruptcy (my disability did everything they could to get out of paying me, but with my Mom's help we got the full two years. Wife got new friends, more evil than ever, my divorce should be final next week. I can't wait! But I am scared...I'm afraid I won't find a decent woman. The effects of my stroke are gone now, finally. But women seem so very picky nowadays, and I am very good looking and nice, but short. So I plan on working out and being the absolute best I can be, maybe a truly good woman will value me.
Any woman worth being with will love you for you, regardless of your height. And if she can't, be glad she was weeded out of your life.
 
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I think about it all the time. I'm naturally a "pleaser" and very in-tune with whether others around me are happy or not. So I worry that a future spouse may not be happy with this or that about me. I wish I weren't that way.
 
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Edith

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I´m pretty confident that I will be a good enough wife/mother one day because I know myself. I don´t worry about those things, It´s more thoughts like " will I ever be a wife/mother" .It´s certainly scary things to think about though, lol. As long as my future spouse loves me for who I am , I will certainly be the best wife ever. And then of course a good mother, I love kids :D
 

breno785au

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Before my wife and I got married I used to really worry that she was too spiritually 'far ahead of me'...Let me explain 1. We were apart of a church where there were many good spiritual principles taught but there was a bit of a competitive spirit lurking around, amongst other things.
2. She has quite a strong prophetic gifting from God and it used to make me feel spiritually inferior because I wasn't as sharp spiritually as her. 3. I had been born again for a couple of years where she had been maybe 5-6 years.
But since then God has shown and taught me a lot of things, we aren't apart of that church any longer either. I guess it was a tool the enemy was using against us to stop our marriage? I no longer feel that way anymore , which I'm so grateful for, it could only have been a work of God!
 

rachelsedge

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Oct 15, 2012
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Everyone is waiting for their non-existent soul mate. And even worse the majority of these posts are 15-24 year olds.
So you mean in 2 years I am free to say "I'm doomed"? ;)
 
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I think about it all the time. I'm naturally a "pleaser" and very in-tune with whether others around me are happy or not. So I worry that a future spouse may not be happy with this or that about me. I wish I weren't that way.
Seems like a good way to be to me! Dang, if i were only 15 years younger!
 
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Ugly

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*quickly pulls Grace out of the room using his body as a shield.
 

rachelsedge

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No you goob. =P
I mean soul mates aren't real. Don't make me have to uhh... something something.
Oh, I know. I don't believe in soul mates either. I just wanted to mess with ya. :D
 

shrimp

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Two years ago, I had no problems with and even planned on being the "crazy cat lady." For many reasons, too.
First, My upbringing. My thing was "Why bring another person into my life that will tell me they love me and turn around not ever show it?"
Second, I am and always have been awkward around children. Probably because I was't allowed to babysit until I was 18 and was rarely around children.
Third, I feel that the interior of Alaska, though intensely amazing, has an over abundance of ravens. Because of the native beliefs humans cannot kill the ravens. So, why not get, breed, and train large orange/tiger-striped house cats to do it?
Fourth, I never figured meeting someone worthy of marrying and procreating with.
Then I met my husband and crazy-cat-lady shrimp was over. Still awkward around children, though. Working on it.
 
Sep 6, 2013
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Seems like a good way to be to me! Dang, if i were only 15 years younger!
It creates unneeded stress for both parties I imagine. Me, always worrying, and the other person, always having to assure me that they are happy. LOL. I exaggerate... it isn't that bad, but it could be a problem!

*quickly pulls Grace out of the room using his body as a shield.
Your self-sacrifice is endearing Ugly! :rolleyes:
 

maxwel

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Apr 18, 2013
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Do you worry about being good enough for your FUTURE significant other?


This is an illogical question.
So if you engage in this worry, it makes you an illogical worrier too.


1. If you are NOT IN a relationship in the future, then the question is irrelevant.

2. If you ARE IN a relationship in the future, the fact that you're IN a relationship with the person, comes with the inherent given that the person ALREADY likes you - so you don't need to worry about being GOOD ENOUGH for them to like you or want you... they already do.

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The REAL question... it has no answer
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- The real question IS NOT, "Will I be good enough for my future significant other,"... it's all illogical question that is self refuting.

- The real question IS, "Will I be good enough to catch the person I WANT."

There is NO answer for the REAL question.
It all depends on what you want.
You can want the moon to be made of cheese... and that won't make it so.

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What is the Biblical Solution?

Is there a solution?
Yes.

If we walk closely with God, he CHANGES our desires to line up with HIS DESIRES.
And surely God will give us the person HE WANTS.... to fulfill his own desires.

Psalm 37:4
Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.


- This verse DOES NOT mean God gives us whatever we want.

- It DOES mean when all of our delight and joy is IN THE LORD, THEN our focus is completely on HIM and our heart is set completely on HIM. When our heart is set completely upon God, this means GOD has done a great work in CHANGING OUR HEART, and our heart now lines up more closely to HIS HEART. When OUR HEART is lined up with HIS HEART, THEN God can give us the desires of our heart, because WE'LL BE WANTING THE SAME THINGS FOR OURSELVES THAT HE WANTS FOR US.

To put it succinctly:
as we walk with God, he slowly CHANGES WHAT WE WANT INTO WHAT HE WANTS...
THEN HE FULFILLS THOSE WANTS, BECAUSE THEY COME FROM HIM.


God Bless,
Max
 
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