Staying Single

[DecentGuy]

My advice is brother, find a Christian woman that yall can love, trust and never hurt each other.

Most people I know @MySavior are around 30 and vast majority are divorced, with nasty child custody cases.

I am a young 51...can't wait to share my life with a mature lady who understands life as I do

DecentGuy

 

[Cherry4Christ]

I am 21 hopefully I'll be married before I turn 30. I think when it comes to this subject women are much more optimistic than men. Whatever the case may be all believers must keep the faith and believe that God will bless them with a wonderful mate.

 

[DecentGuy]

I see the generations before me. People were married from the ages of 16-24.

I am now 24; I am not married, I've never had a girlfriend, and I don't even know a girl that would be a possible mate. I'm poor, with enough money to get me by, and with not much of a future ahead of me. "So that's you", you may say. But! ....

As I've been noticing for some time now, many, many people are going through this same thing! In this generation, we have 30 year old singles still waiting for marriage! They are sad (like me), they are tired of it (like me), and they see others, and are embarrassed (like me). We are discontent -- discontent Christians. What a shame to be married at 40, only to never even see your own grandchildren!

So perhaps, by the time I am 30, the chances of me ever being married will be gone? Is this where our Christian zeitgeist regarding matrimony is headed?

So, can this be considered the will of God, then, for us?

So then, should be view singleness with the loneliness and the sadness that we associate it with? Should we begin something that the majority of the generations before us never saw, a blessed singleness?

Of course, we always hear our pastors preach on marriage as almost a necessity (and they were married at a young age, of course), but perhaps there must be a new trend. A new view on marriage and singleness. Perhaps we should stop wanting to be married, and instead remain single, for the glory of God. "For I would that all men were even as myself", Paul wrote; so we see that marriage is not necessary, and it was not even done by that man whom God chose.
Well, what do you all say?

Age is just a number, I see early 20's people who are obscenely obese and eat at Wendy's every day. At twice their age I swim 1.25 km every morning,,for those not familiar with the metric system (pretty much only Americans) that is 3/4 of a mile, and work out in the gym for 2 hours watching pretty boys bounce up and down with 3x the weight...It is hilarious..these kids have no clue, age has no place in my life.

We are in for a world of hurt when the average American 10 year old eats 3,000 calories of cheeses and 1/2 pound of sugar via soda every day and weighs in at 130 lbs. I am 6ft 3" and a very solid 190lbs at 51

yes I am bragging..worked hard for it... how many other 50 year olds can atest to that/ 1% maybe ??

Sincerely
DecentGuy



respectfully
DecentGuy

 

[flight316]

Men on Strike - YouTube


Well, the imbed didn't work but the link is here^

It talks about why men aren't marrying, the cultural reasons, and the future implications of this trend.

thanks for the video. It was very insightful. I thought that the problem was more isolated. But I see now that its widespread.