How to Vet a Woman as a Potential Wife
Stop wasting her time and yours, while saving everyone involved from potential heartache.
If you are serious about finding a wife, you need to get serious about vetting the women you date. Don’t string women along with indecision. It wastes your time, and it wastes her time.
This information is worth thousands of dollars and can save you from years of heartache. Men used to get this information from their fathers and grandfathers. No more. And so our broken culture gets worse and worse.
Your great-grandparents could have told you everything in this article. They learned it from their parents, and on and on. 16-year-olds in 1920 had a more complete education in marriage than most 30-year-olds today, because wisdom was handed down, and we weren’t trying to reinvent the relationship wheel every 30 minutes.
Vetting is not just about choosing the best woman; it is about knowing what you are getting yourself into. Are you ok with the tradeoffs? Because once you marry a woman, you have made your choice, and you are responsible. You are now fully invested.
Every woman comes with costs. Every woman comes with rewards. Know both and weigh them appropriately before you commit.
This guide is critical for young men and for fathers as their sons enter the dating pool.
Below are practical questions and tips for how to tease out the truth, organized in four stages, along with the answer to the all-important question: how long should you wait before you propose? How long is “enough” before you can know she’s marriage material?


