Success is a sense of well-being based that is built upon a foundation of health in your life. You do not need to be married to have healthy success. You can have success as a single. These are things to know if you are married or considering marriage. 1. Spouses are companions who each other get closer to God and complete His work - Genesis 2:18 We are partners who encourage, support, and pray for each other We be there for each other’s needs, hurts, joys, dreams. We help each other get closer to God and to more effectively do His work. Questions to ask if you are dating/considering someone to date -Do I know for certain this person has surrendered their life to the Lordship of Jesus? -Does this person have a passion for Jesus or are they spiritually aloof/antagonistic? -Do they live with a connection to God? Do they have a regular devotional life? -Is this person’s calling headed in a similar direction to mine? -Can I more effectively fulfill God’s will for my life by yoking up with them? -Looking at emotional health, are they an emotionally healthy person? -When confronted with wrong they’ve done, can they accept fault or do they blame everyone else? Are they hard and resistant or broken and contrite? -Do they stuff emotions or do they deal with them? -How do they respond when you deal with your emotions—caring and supportive, callous-cruel-insensitive, withdrawn-aloof-emotionally unavailable? -Does this person manipulate to get their own way? 2. Spouses are to be , knit together in body, soul, spirit - Genesis 2:24 - all of your previous close relationships will now become second place to your relationship with your spouse. Your marriage is now the most important relationship and no one should come between you—friend or relative of the same or opposite sex. – to stick to, to be glued to each other by moving towards each other and investing time together—talking, praying, working, having fun, dating, making love. One - in your decisions, money matters, goals for the future, how to raise children, vacation activities, spending the holidays, etc. This doesn’t mean you sacrifice your individuality and become lost in your spouse. Nor does it mean you are smothered by your spouse and never have time for personal self care. It means to not live as two, but as one. This is a continuous process. You never stop becoming one. You have to be intentional and work it; otherwise you drift apart.