Your answers point to someone who has done the quiet, unglamorous work that a lasting commitment actually rests on – knowing yourself, being honest, and looking clearly at the life you’d be building together. That’s rarer than the wedding industry would have you believe.
Readiness isn’t about having everything figured out. It’s about being honest about where you are, willing to keep growing, and clear-eyed about the harder seasons as well as the good ones. On the things that tend to make or break a marriage – conflict, money, expectations and your own history – you’re in a genuinely strong place.
That doesn’t mean coasting. The couples who go the distance are usually the ones who keep tending the relationship rather than assuming it will look after itself. If you’d like to deepen what you already have, talking it through with a relationship counsellor before you take the step can be one of the most useful things you do – not because something’s wrong, but because the strongest couples invest early.