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Do you face pressure to be in a relationship? How has that affected you?
I was engaged the first time at 22 for what was to be a year and a half. Six months before the wedding, my fiance broke off the engagement. I spent three years without a plus one and then slowing started dating again. My mother would throw digs at me about being ready to become a grandmother! Eventually, I did meet my future husband at 27! We were engaged after a year of dating and married after six months of an engagement. He had a previous engagement that his fiance had broken off at the same time mine did! We are still married for over fifteen years now and have two children which we waited to have to spend time together. My point is that I never worried and always felt that I would get married and have children. I never thought too much about what other people thought. After we were married for two years (I was thirty and we had just bought our first house), my mother started up with the grandmother issue again. I just did things when myself and my husband were ready. At 44, I can tell you in retrospect that you definitely know when things are right and God will lead the way, so don't fight it!
Posted by: Dawn Talley (Honesdale, PA)
Posted: 7/31/2010 8:17:16 AM
Congregation: St. Johns
I really liked what Sue added to Psalm 139 at the end. Her creativity really brought the point home.
Posted by: Janell (Naperville, IL)
Posted: 7/11/2010 8:29:10 AM
Congregation: Our Saviour's Lutheran Church
I would like to take this opportunity to first thank you all for the efforts through Cafe. I especially liked this issue, July, as it spoke to me as a life-long single woman. I very much appreciated Susan Schneider's article. It was enlightening and reassuring. Thank You.
Posted by: Delane Jome (Sturgeon Bay, WI)
Posted: 7/8/2010 5:16:00 PM
Congregation: Bay View Lutheran
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Coming up in Café...
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August 2010
As we mature, our relationship with our parents changes. Read
what some women have learned from this transition.
September 2010
Do you know if you are in a healthy dating relationship? Learn
about the lesser known signs of an abusive relationship.
October 2010
Are you judgemental? Learn ways to release the judgements—and
obey Jesus' command, "Do not judge." (Matthew 7:7) |
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