We live in a society where anything goes, premarital sex, non-marital sex, sexual perversions, orgies, beastiality etc. However, there are standards when kept would result in a godly relationship that would last and stand the test of time. These thread should discuss the standards that you feel should lead to a godly relationship
In order to have a GODLY relationship, first you both need to believe in God/Goddess/Gods and Goddesses.
Even though I don't believe in God, I think I understand what you mean. You're alluding to the logic of immediate-gratification. By that logic the individual wishes to fulfill an ideal: he/she needs to be a ready-made product rather than a work in progress.
having indulged in any number of those things fairly recently, i still have a beautiful relationship based on love of each other. 10 years of bliss. thankfully i had the good sense to live with him for a couple of years before i married him. i could be like my mother and divorced once and married for 22 miserable years had i not. my husband's mother is divorced four times. all because "she believed in getting married." apparently she jumped the gun a bit. she shoulda lived with them first. then she wouldn't have to feel the shame she feels.