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Sacrilege
Its nice to be accepting and openminded but don’t be so openminded that at some point your brains will fall out.
If you are personally not watching movies…, don’t date/marry someone who is watching movies. Even if he is working on himself, it may take time and in the process he can drag you down.
Its not enough that you are both growing, and growth oriented. You need to be in the same place spiritually or at least let him be on a higher level.
It pains me to say this but I know a guy who outwardly looks like a nice frum guy but his hashkafos are messed up and he watches a lot of tv and movies. He married a girl who was considerably frummer than him, she used to go to shiurim in her free time motzei shabbos…and very rarely watched movies.
He isn’t into shiuim at all. Basically he convinced her to stop attending “those boring shiurim” now they watch movies every motzei shabbos. He forbids her to go to shiurim. When he told me this I had to control myself from letting out the scream that was building in my mind.
Your spouse can ruin you and you won’t even realize it. It happens little by little and its hard to resist a spouse. Especially a young couple shona rishona they try to give in to their spouse as much as possible…
Don’t think you are smarter or you will be different. Marry a guy who already has the things you want and is living the life you want to live. Don’t wait for him to change during marriage because it may not happen. Don’t leave such a thing up to chance.