![]() Why does our relationship status dictate our value? ![]() But do you know how damaging that is to a single person? Or even to a woman who can’t conceive? We feel less of a person, a dysfunctional member of society bc we can’t meet that standard even though weve tried. That we’re not living to our full potential until we are a wife and mother? Tell me that’s not a thing. Do you realize that, while no one ever says it, that as a single person you feel the social weight of being unmarried? There is most assuredly an assumption (that often can come from the church and even from relatives) that our lives don’t start until we’re married. That we are wasting away years of our life, waiting for when we can finally sit with the grown ups at the big table and have our place in society. There is an underlying assumption that all singles are miserably lonely. But I realized that my view was so shallow and it was crippling me! Why is there a social distinction into two classes there? Isn’t there more important things we should be striving for in life? I mean sure I’d like to get married but I don’t live my life around that anymore. And we’re doing it like good little children and if we’re good long enough God will reward us by giving us what we want! As if that’s what life is, either married or unmarried. ![]() ![]() There’s this assumption that single people are waiting to get married.
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