This is a christian forum and it is a way to express what is in our hearts and minds. With those people who have good intention and right motive in their seach for a life time partner or husband/wife, sometimes confuse what they are looking or searching for. Seems that they do not have direction what kind of person they are looking. Now, How can I decide if he or she is for me? What attributes of that person do you want to possess as your future partner to be? This is for those who are still searching and also for those who found one. What characteristics and attributes he or she possesses that you are looking for? How will I know that he or she has that attributes? How will I know?
Hereunder are some of the list i have now as of this moment. Some will be added in the future as I am thinking.
1. Respectful - It is hard to find someone today who are respectful. But I want a man of my life who respect my own belief. But to respect someones ideas and opinions is good but need not to fight for it as it is wrong. It is better to give your opinion why things to be wrong or not. To respect someones perspective is good but it need not to argue about it.
How the man respect his parents and siblings will also respect me as the future wife. To be respectful is to listen to what is in my heart and what my concerns are. I believe that how he will respect and obey his parents will he respect me also. Respect has always has a listening heart.
2. Loving - It is hard to love someone whom it is hard for him or her to love in return. Those people who wants to destroy your life is hard to love. Someone who wanted to make your life miserable is hard to love, too. We christian are commanded to love one another, and also to love our enemy. For the man i desire to be, i know that he will love me to be his future wife if he love his mother. How he will treat his mother, will also love me as his wife in return. This is the same with the women. How they treat their father, will also they treat their husband to be. So, it is important to know how much he really show love to his family members and parents.
3. Responsible - Take note how responsible the person even in smallest thing. How responsible he or she uses her time, what she spend and whom he or she spend his or her time. Being responsible is to know our priorities. Being responsible is always put things first, first. Like my late father, I can say that he was a responsible father to us. Although, he was so perfectionist and strict to us, but he was responsible. He always try his best to provide and do his obligation towards us his children. He tried to send us to school and always encouraged us to be also responsible with our studies. He has provided us as much as he can, indeed he was responsible.
4. Patient - to be patient is so hard. Teaching kids is so hard. Actually, I need to more patience in terms of dealing them and be patient enough until they learn what I wanted to impart. ALso in any relationships - family, friends, romantic - it need patience. Patience to understand someone, patient to wait until they have learned, patient to hold on no matter what happen. Patient is so hard to learn especially that we are human. We always easily get angry because we do not get what we expected to, but I have learned to be patient. I also learned that if we are impatient , we lack wisdom. Wisdom from above is very important. Patient to wait and along the way we will understand in the future why we needed to be patient. Like laying piano, pianist are very good to see and hear the music as they play because they had the patience to wait. Patience to tackle difficulties while learning to play good. Sometimes, your hands get hurt and spend many hours until you will get it perfectly.
5. Committed Christian - I am not looking for a perfect guy, since there is no perfect. I am looking for a right man. Before I can find that, first I should see to it that I am the right one for him, too. While many claim to be christian, many live opposite to what they believe as christian to be. Living as Christian has no place for compromise. To compromise will always lead to distraction and ended up disappointment, hurt and pain. So we must live a life that is what God wants. His word must be our map of our daily living. It is a daily renewal of hearts and minds that keep us on HIs will.
These are the list I have on my mind, and hope to write more in the future. Please write down what attributes you wanted to have in your future spouse or if you are married, what attributes you want to develop in your husband or wife now. It is a lot to contribute. Then you will know and decide. So, Do you know how to decide now? Pray for it and God will give you the desires of your heart.