Top 5 (turned into 17!)

Auntie Iran says:
Good Man – LOVES YOU very much.
Uncle Fareidoon says:
Make sure he’s not gay or anything.
Really get to know him well.
Do a matrix and mathematically figure out who’s best.
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My top 5 (turned into top 17) :This practice of writing down goals related to marriage came after reading the nice book, Marrying Smart by Kalyn Wolf Gibbens in 2001. The idea is to be honest and express your reall dreams regarding marriage, as you think, ready, study, consult, and revise the list - you come up with the top 5 that are a must, the rest you can work on. I also attended an Attracting the Perfect Customer workshop by Stacy Hall at the 2001 SED Conference and it also taught us how to express your real dreams and attractions and desires and then learn how to work towards improving yourself and your approach to your noble goals through the "Attraction Plan". A mixture of honesty, knowing yourself, and striving for excellence)
  1. We are really attracted to each other – personality, spiritually, physically... (because i have dated people who weren't attracted to me or i wasn't attracted on all those levels)
  2. We are dedicated to our own and each other’s spiritual growth through the study of the Writings of God including the study of the Bahá’í Writings and conscious, regular, systematic, continuous, joyful as much as possible efforts to apply them and learn.
  3. We like to and do work with each other on service projects, community involvement, and other creative fulfilling works of service and/or creativity
  4. We like to be around each other and spend time together. We make efforts to be with each other and help each other and together be our best and achieve our noblest dreams and goals and to have fun and be creative and serviceful.
  5. We speak kindly and encourage each other. WE are full of love around each other. We are polite and courteous to each other. We believe in the strong power of the mind, thoughts, words, actions and feelings focused on the love of God and each other and family friend and mankind.
  6. He would make a wonderful husband for me. I would make a wonderful wife for him. Each of us supporting each other’s spirit, happiness and development – spiritual, material, career, family, etc. We consult well together.
  7. He would make a wonderful father to our 3 children (adopted and/or birth). I would make a wonderful mother to our 3 children. We create a warm, loving, active, happy home together full of loving, conscientious training and guidance and skill building and helping them and ourselves know what brings each loftiness and honor and how to establish patterns and habits in life that bring us more loftiness. Know what bring abasement and how to avoid that.
  8. We love each other.
  9. We build a happy, harmonious, active, loving, financially secure, creative, beautiful, open, clean, child friendly and family friendly home together
  10. We study the writings together and serve together – and have a lot of fun doing it.
  11. We enjoy the outdoors together – hiking, swimming, walking, camping, skiing, canoeing,
  12. We enjoy spending time with our family and friends together
  13. We lovingly and happily and enthusiastically and down to earth-ly and conscientiously and gently raise our 2-3 children together. We enjoy loving them and encouraging them to be strong, down to earth dedicated servants of God and humanity. With lots of humor, love, trustworthiness and consultation. We enjoy their graduations from high school and college, their marriages and having their own children and homes.
  14. We earn enough together to afford a warm, cozy, perfect home for us, and for travel and creativity and charity. We consult on money and develop and use a smart budget.
  15. We travel to help others together. We help others in New Orleans together. We visit Mom & W together regularly and take them on trips. We visit Dad & C together and pray for them and enjoy their company. We see my sisters and cousins and grandparents and aunts and uncles together and pray for them and enjoy their company.
  16. He is warm, dedicated, responsible, fun, witty, loving, kind, devoted, partner - and we love each other very much
  17. I meet him in September 2005 (according to Marrying Smart it's important to set time lines)

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