Dating is fun and exciting, especially when you like him or her and they like you back.
But how do you figure out this is the person you want to spend the rest of your life with before you invest your emotions?
Here are 3 critical questions to ask your potential partner to save you from a painful heartbreak or worse, a divorce.
1. What exactly do you want out of this relationship?
People get into relationships for different reasons.
Some want purely friendship, some strictly want a friends with benefits situation and others are in for the long-term marriage.
Therefore, before falling head over heels with someone, ask them what exactly they want to avoid wasting each other's time.
2. Do you believe in the concept of monogamy?
Some cultures are open to the concept of open marriages.
Therefore, before you fall fast and furious, it's important to find out if the person you're interested in is a one-man-woman or man person, especially if you're a person who doesn't subscribe to polygamy.
If you're not on the same page on this one, then it will be wise to reconsider things relationship-wise.
3. Are you open to the idea of having children?
To some people, children are usually the end goal of a relationship/marriage, and to others, children are not part of the equation.
Finding out your partner doesn't want kids while you do or vice-versa, when you're years into your marriage after investing loads of emotions into someone is usually heart-wrenching.
That's why it's important to find out first before falling in love with someone.