Qualities in a Spouse

Qualities in a Spouse (Potential Spouse or Existing Spouse): applicable to both, husband and wife

Everyone likes to have a perfect, happy and permanent marriage and married life. To a large extent it may depend on the qualities in the existing or potential spouse, qualities in husband as well as qualities in wife. With good qualities in the marriage partners, the marriage can work wonderfully.

As a ready reference, given below is a list of some 75 qualities (and disqualifications) one may look out for in an existing or potential spouse. They are arranged simply alphabetically and therefore, order of their presentation does not signify their order of importance.

Add more those you can think of. Then, arrange them in order of your preference by paired comparison method. Take the prospective candidate and check him/her against these qualities/disqualifications. Can be even more precise by rating him/her on a scale 0 to 5 after attaching weightages to the qualities.

The List

1. A person who will help you to make the marriage work
2. Acceptance of the partner with his/her qualities as well as flaws
3. Affectionate
4. Age
5. Aggressive/Submissive/Assertive
6. Allows flexibility to spouse (in food and drinks selection, dresses, job etc)
7. Angry and shouts
8. Bragging type
9. Can be a good parent
10. Caring
11. Commitment
12. Common sense
13. Communicative with spouse and those with whom he comes in contact
14. Considerate
15. Discourteous/Rude
16. Distrustful
17. Does not get angry
18. Dominating
19. Drinks (social drinker likely to get addict or already habitual drinker)
20. Take drugs/Drug addict
21. Earnings
22. Education
23. Ethical behavior
24. Fake/Pretends
25. Family background
26. Flexible
27. Friendship
28. Gossipy
29. Height
30. Helping
31. Honesty/Genuineness
32. Humility; not arrogant and full of him/herself
33. Hygiene
34. Immature
35. Insults
36. Intelligence
37. Jealous
38. Job
39. Kindness
40. Languages
41. Lazy
42. Looks
43. Looks more at qualities than the flaws
44. Loving
45. Loyalty towards spouse (no infidelity)
46. Macho type
47. Mature
48. Nationality
49. Normal health
50. Not a miser
51. Not hysterical
52. Open and sharing (with spouse)
53. Patient and understanding
54. Personal responsibility of spouse, children and home
55. Political
56. Potential to grow professionally
57. Pronunciations in different languages (required to deal with people in the society)
58. Reckless spender
59. Respectful to spouse and other members of family and society
60. Rigid
61. Romantic
62. Secretive, hides things from spouse
63. Smokes
64. Social, has good friends in adequate numbers
65. Stable (not blow hot blow cold type- changing colors and moods every now and then)
66. Street smart
67. Supporting
68. Suspicious
69. Takes interest in many things other than profession
70. Tells lies/Makes stories
71. Tidy
72. Trustworthy
73. Truthful
74. Unproductive
75. Uses assertive behavior at appropriate places and occasions (not aggressive)

If you can think of more (qualities or disqualifications), please put them up in the comments column.

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