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In my opinion, the concept of “beshert” is the most harmful concept to people’s dating and getting married.
Some people think that there is one person who you are meant to marry; and that if you marry her, it will be perfect; and if you don’t, it will be Gehenom.
If you think that, I don’t know how you can ever get married. How will you ever be certain enough that it is the right one to justify taking that risk.
Also, once you are married, there is no incentive to work on the marriage since if it is the right one there will be natural bliss and if not there will be natural Hell.
That is not the way it works. I don’t know what beshert is, but you are supposed to marry someone who you reasonably think you can live with, and work to make it happen.