There's no such thing, according to Eric Metaxas. You know the idea, "there's just one perfect person for me and we'll have a perfect marriage or relationship without hardly trying because we're perfect for each other." Something like that.
His argument is realistic - no matter who you marry, compromise and self-sacrificial love will be required.
"As J. R. R. Tolkien once wrote to his son, “No man, however truly he loved his betrothed and bride as a young man, has lived faithful to her as a wife in mind and body without deliberate conscious exercise of the will, without self-denial."
Tolkien goes on in the letter to say, "When the glamour wears off, or merely works a bit thin, they think they have made a mistake, and that the real soul-mate is still to find."
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