1. Mature Enough for Marriage?2
Mature Enough for Marriage?

3. Romance
Love

4. Romance produces wrong expectations
Romance vs. Love
Romance produces wrong expectations

5. Romance demands perfection
Romance vs. Love
Romance produces wrong expectations
Romance demands perfection

6. Romance emphasizes the wrong things
Romance vs. Love
Romance produces wrong expectations
Romance demands perfection
Romance emphasizes the wrong things

7. Romance doesn’t take advice
Romance vs. Love
Romance produces wrong expectations
Romance demands perfection
Romance emphasizes the wrong things
Romance doesn’t take advice

8. Romance vs. Love
Love is a commitment to make another’s welfare equal to one’s own and the discipline to maintain that commitment.

9. A commitment to consider someone else’s welfare equal to my own
Romance vs. Love
A commitment to consider someone else’s welfare equal to my own

10. Discipline Romance vs. Love
A commitment to consider someone else’s welfare equal to my own
Discipline

11. Building on Love Romance vs. Love
A commitment to consider someone else’s welfare equal to my own
Discipline
Building on Love

13. Knowing When You Are Ready

14. Knowing When You Are Ready
Self-control

15. Knowing When You Are Ready
Self-control
Personal happiness

16. Knowing When You Are Ready
Self-control
Personal happiness
Values

17. Knowing When You Are Ready
Self-control
Personal happiness
Values
Emotional stability

18. Knowing When You Are Ready
Self-control
Personal happiness
Values
Emotional stability
Relationships with parents

19. The first step in the maturing process is the willingness to learn.
How blessed is the man who finds wisdom And the man who gains understanding.
- Proverbs 3:13