Melannie Gregersen warns against emotionally committing to someone before you're actually married. She compares it to mentally moving into a house before you own it, and shares why this mindset can hurt your relationship.
I have a saying that I want you to memorize: "Do not marry her before you marry her." I'm going to just say that one more time. "Do not marry her before you marry her." What in the world do I mean by that? It is very possible and not uncommon at all to marry someone emotionally before you are ever married to them physically. It's kind of similar to, have you ever heard someone who's looking for a new house and they find the house that they really, really want and they say something like, "I just, I "I see myself living there. I can see myself moving in and being happy there." Well, emotionally, in their mind, they kind of have already moved in. Emotionally, that's their home. This can also happen in relationships. Let me illustrate with a story. I have a friend who has so much
