Question for Happy Singles

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This question is for happy singles who are not actively seeking a relationship (not online dating, etc). What keeps you happy despite being single? I would like to know more meaningful reasons, such as you are helping others etc not because you have the option of eating cereal for dinner and not worry about cooking.
I would not say i am ""happy"" being single.. But i would say i am content and have peace of mind being single because i believe Jesus and know that i am not alone even as i live my life alone..

I have always found that being ""happy"" has only ever been a very momentary emotional state..
 
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Single people should be forced to sit in on marriage consoling.
Cops should have to work one week a month at the local day care.
Politicians should spend on month a year picking up garbage and helping the homeless.
I Opine.
 

cinder

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Single people should be forced to sit in on marriage consoling.
That's a great typo; I'll make it a point to regularly console people about their marriages.
 
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That's a great typo; I'll make it a point to regularly console people about their marriages.
Not all typos are unintentional.
A lot of dead marriages out there, lifeless, built on the wrong foundation, or not sharing the same foundation.
They exist for a Godly purpose, not just for us.
The Demonstration of Gods Love and the Churches faith to submit and receive it.
It is one of the strongest testimonies the Church has to give the world of who God is and what it looks like to be his.
 

Lanolin

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mmm some people think that if you are single, it means you are 'keeping your options option' i.e they are like, you're secretly desperately wanting to get married right, because *everyone* wants that.

I dont know where people get that idea from.
Maybe its because many churches have been traditionally places where people DO get married or at least have weddings.
Probably more unbelievers get married in churches then believers?

I think its more to do with culture than anything else. In Indian culture for example, they still have arranged weddings and mothers are desperate to have daughters married off (even if they are christians. not hindus). In western cultures, wedding are often associated with churches and big white dresses for the brides, and extravagant receptions. But on the other hand its also associated with money and land titles. If you are an heir or heiress you HAVE to marry to pass down your land, your name and your fortune. Its just a given..plus you are told to marry someone with just enough assets to contribute to your land title, otherwise with no heirs it wont belong to anyone anymore and have to be sold.

Then anyone can buy it.

In the Bible, it talks about the land being married. Well land lasts a lot longer than people do, although, the way people abuse it, it seems the land wont support people for too long who dont love it.
 

Prycejosh1987

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This question is for happy singles who are not actively seeking a relationship (not online dating, etc). What keeps you happy despite being single? I would like to know more meaningful reasons, such as you are helping others etc not because you have the option of eating cereal for dinner and not worry about cooking.
I can eat what i want, and have more money to do what i want to do.