Everything about nikah and marriage is about compromise. One of you is going to be more beautiful or more intelligent or more religious or more educated or more practicing or more considerate - and one of you will possess better character than the other. That's life. Don't allow false expectations of perfection to mess up your relationship. You can't even be the same as the siblings you grew up with - so how will someone from a different family be exactly the same as you?
Look at the Prophet ﷺ - He was the one who was always beautifully compromising. He was the most handsome, the most intelligent, the most religious, the most majestic, the most God-fearing - no one in this world can compare with him - yet he never got angry or looked down upon people or resented anyone. Instead, he was so patient and compassionate that he always used his perfection to raise people in rank, to assist them, and to make others feel special. He raised them to such ranks that Allah said, "O wives of the Prophet, you are like no other women!"
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