Forever.

James E. Faust said something along these lines. It is hard to understand what is outside of our experience. Every week I get a little further outside of my experience. This week I would like to spend learning about Marriage. Marriage is outside of my experience. Thus I only know as much as I have learned from family, from observation, from textbooks, and from the experiences others share with me. Although all of these things hold a lot of validity, it is still out of my experience so I will not be able to capture marriage as a whole. I still believe it is worth giving a try.

Marriage is probably the most influential and thus most important decision you will make in your life. We probably shouldn't marry because we are in love with being in love. And you probably should not marry someone you have not dated. But it is important to get married and do it right.

Doing it right encompasses these three things: the right person, the right place, the right time. One thing about marriage is that two of these three aspects will be different for everyone. The right place will hopefully be in a temple where we can be married for time and eternity. The right person will obviously and hopefully be different for every person. And finding that right person is up to everyone individually. And since there is no specified age of marriage, although there is a common time span, the right time differs.

Even with these three differences there are some commonalities. Marry someone that makes you better than you are. Someone that inspires you. Someone that uplifts you. Someone that compliments you. Someone that has common values, aspirations, goals. Marry someone you trust. Marry someone you are in true love with.