How I am Learning to Be Single

for I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances. Phil 4:11b

Happy Thursday Southernistas!

When I was thinking about content for this week’s blog I was trying to decide what I wanted to talk about regarding fashion and style but then I felt prompted to talk about something I’m not comfortable talking about…my SINGLENESS. My martial status is something I try not to think about mostly because I’ve spent a lot of time and energy thinking about my martial status. Now that I am 50 the more aware I am of the fact that I am still single and I mean single never been married single. I always thought that by now I would be married for a number of years and provided my daughter with siblings (note my daughter loves being an only child).

But I’ve come to realize that although I am single I never really learned how to be single I mean your status is single when you come into the world but as we get older and discover the opposite sex we feel the pressure to be coupled up with someone. I mean you can’t avoid the message that this is a couple’s world it is everywhere! Love songs, romance novels, romance movies, and as a Christian single I feel that the church has declared a second great commission to go out and get every single married.

I remember desperately wanting a boyfriend all though high school and college (not one date in college) especially when you see everyone all coupled up. The month of February was torture for me but I had friends that made it bearable. Except for one…