I would rather be single then be with the wrong person.

  • Christian Chat is a moderated online Christian community allowing Christians around the world to fellowship with each other in real time chat via webcam, voice, and text, with the Christian Chat app. You can also start or participate in a Bible-based discussion here in the Christian Chat Forums, where members can also share with each other their own videos, pictures, or favorite Christian music.

    If you are a Christian and need encouragement and fellowship, we're here for you! If you are not a Christian but interested in knowing more about Jesus our Lord, you're also welcome! Want to know what the Bible says, and how you can apply it to your life? Join us!

    To make new Christian friends now around the world, click here to join Christian Chat.

olivetree32

Senior Member
Jan 4, 2009
226
36
28
#1
Please get to know someone for who they really are. God wants the best for you♡
 

Lynx

Folksy yet erudite
Aug 13, 2014
27,418
9,405
113
#2
"I would rather be single then be with the wrong person."

Oh boy do I know that feeling! I feel it every day I go to w*rk. I deal with lots of people that make me downright happy to be single.

Sure it would be nice to meet a nice lady one day and marry her. But I get a LOT of examples of the wrong kind of person when I go to w*rk.

But I can leave all that when I clock out and go home to my peaceful house. Ahhhh, I love being single. Much better than being married to the wrong person.
 

olivetree32

Senior Member
Jan 4, 2009
226
36
28
#3
"I would rather be single then be with the wrong person."

Oh boy do I know that feeling! I feel it every day I go to w*rk. I deal with lots of people that make me downright happy to be single.

Sure it would be nice to meet a nice lady one day and marry her. But I get a LOT of examples of the wrong kind of person when I go to w*rk.

But I can leave all that when I clock out and go home to my peaceful house. Ahhhh, I love being single. Much better than being married to the wrong person.
"I would rather be single then be with the wrong person."

Oh boy do I know that feeling! I feel it every day I go to w*rk. I deal with lots of people that make me downright happy to be single.

Sure it would be nice to meet a nice lady one day and marry her. But I get a LOT of examples of the wrong kind of person when I go to w*rk.

But I can leave all that when I clock out and go home to my peaceful house. Ahhhh, I love being single. Much better than being married to the wrong person.
Your home should be a place of peace.
 

Whispered

Well-known member
Aug 17, 2019
4,551
2,230
113
www.christiancourier.com
#5
Wise words.
My twin was married to the wrong one for over 30 years. Verbal abuse is always mental and emotional abuse. He never hit her though he did raise his fist a few times and then thought better of it. He was highly trained in martial arts and perhaps that's why he stopped. He knew the damage he could do.
After awhile she became numb to being ignored. When they first met they'd talk till the sun came up, each one not realizing the time. After they married, gradually over years, she would talk at him, or aloud, and he'd never say a word. Unless he wanted to talk about something that he was interested in.
One day she called in tears. She'd asked him why they didn't talk like they use to, for hours, getting lost to the time and lost in each other.

To this day I remember the answer she said he gave her. This one of the last few conversations we shared together before she passed on. He told her, "Because you don't have anything to say worth listening to."
He was a liar, a sneak, and a thief. And the worst thing that ever happened to her life. He was also her first and last husband.

Whatever you do, as a young single person, especially if you are in your teens. Don't marry that young. She was 25 when they wed. And still, she said, it was too soon. Because in the end she was married to him longer than she'd been alive before they met.
Something she told me in a note she mailed of random thoughts. She'd do that when she was down. I think a lot of the times she did these things so when I found someone who sounded like they were living the same issues as she, I'd share them. Below are but two.

"When you're young and think to marry and be with someone forever experiment first. Pick your two favorite foods. Entree and a dessert. Eat just those two things for a week. Breakfast, lunch, dinner. Because that's marriage. One person, day or night, good or bad, for the rest of your life. When you're a teen you stand to live 50 to 60 years. Now imagine, that one entree, one dessert, and only those, for six decades!"

"When we meet someone we're really attracted to forever doesn't seem long enough. When you marry the wrong person that last line in the vows changes you. "Till death us do part..." In a bad marriage there are many ways to die."

When she passed on she knew I'm sure and I realized later through the grief, had she divorced him, given the average lifespan of a healthy female, she would have had less years to live so as to find the right man, than she'd spent with the wrong one.
 

JustEli

Well-known member
Dec 23, 2018
1,374
983
113
50
#6
In the spring, our love bloomed with exuberance

through the summer we burned with passion

the autumn chilled with a hint of trepidation

the cruel winter twisted our hearts into depths

of dismay
 

laughingheart

Senior Member
Sep 21, 2016
1,709
1,669
113
#7
Wise words.
My twin was married to the wrong one for over 30 years. Verbal abuse is always mental and emotional abuse. He never hit her though he did raise his fist a few times and then thought better of it. He was highly trained in martial arts and perhaps that's why he stopped. He knew the damage he could do.
After awhile she became numb to being ignored. When they first met they'd talk till the sun came up, each one not realizing the time. After they married, gradually over years, she would talk at him, or aloud, and he'd never say a word. Unless he wanted to talk about something that he was interested in.
One day she called in tears. She'd asked him why they didn't talk like they use to, for hours, getting lost to the time and lost in each other.

To this day I remember the answer she said he gave her. This one of the last few conversations we shared together before she passed on. He told her, "Because you don't have anything to say worth listening to."
He was a liar, a sneak, and a thief. And the worst thing that ever happened to her life. He was also her first and last husband.

Whatever you do, as a young single person, especially if you are in your teens. Don't marry that young. She was 25 when they wed. And still, she said, it was too soon. Because in the end she was married to him longer than she'd been alive before they met.
Something she told me in a note she mailed of random thoughts. She'd do that when she was down. I think a lot of the times she did these things so when I found someone who sounded like they were living the same issues as she, I'd share them. Below are but two.

"When you're young and think to marry and be with someone forever experiment first. Pick your two favorite foods. Entree and a dessert. Eat just those two things for a week. Breakfast, lunch, dinner. Because that's marriage. One person, day or night, good or bad, for the rest of your life. When you're a teen you stand to live 50 to 60 years. Now imagine, that one entree, one dessert, and only those, for six decades!"

"When we meet someone we're really attracted to forever doesn't seem long enough. When you marry the wrong person that last line in the vows changes you. "Till death us do part..." In a bad marriage there are many ways to die."

When she passed on she knew I'm sure and I realized later through the grief, had she divorced him, given the average lifespan of a healthy female, she would have had less years to live so as to find the right man, than she'd spent with the wrong one.
I am so sorry she went through that sort of pain. It is so wrong.
 

laughingheart

Senior Member
Sep 21, 2016
1,709
1,669
113
#8
In the spring, our love bloomed with exuberance

through the summer we burned with passion

the autumn chilled with a hint of trepidation

the cruel winter twisted our hearts into depths

of dismay
That is so sad. I had looked forward to the autumn and winter of my life being shared is gentleness and companionable happiness.
 

BlessedByGod

Well-known member
Sep 28, 2019
12,196
7,026
113
#9
Please get to know someone for who they really are. God wants the best for you♡
Agreed. A good and healthy relationship should build each other up and serve the things of God and not of man.
To help each other and be there for each other. We all fall short, tis true. But, a good and Godly relationship is started with God's Grace, Love and Blessing.
Nicely said in what you put in your starter for the thread.
Never had the pleasure to "meet you" in here by the way, so a hello to you while I am posting this.
 

Lanolin

Well-known member
Dec 15, 2018
23,460
7,188
113
#11
I was reading this book about Centenarians. Those who lived to be 100 or more. it is called Keepers of history, the author went round interviewing any one over 100 in nz.
what I noticed was that they either had steady marriages or were single and never married.
None were divorced, and none had abusive spouses. They might have been widows but they then coped as widows and were not so codependent that they couldnt survive.
The ones that were single kept active and interested in hobbies, other people or volunteered for charities. None of them ever mentioned regrets althougn many seemd surprised they lived so long. could be genetic?

I dont know if maybe it was just self reporting what the interviewer wanted to hear though, but it struck me that many people do die younger if they have stressful relationships. if people dont end up divorcing, the reality is abusve couples can and do end up killing each other, if not directly then indirectly.
 

Lanolin

Well-known member
Dec 15, 2018
23,460
7,188
113
#12
For younger women, a cautionary tale..please dont be naive about going with wolves.
read the story of Sophie Elliot.

There are probably other stories from mens point of view but if domestic violence does occur at hands of men its more likely women are the ones who end up dead due to coercive control.

It is far too common in society to ignore. The worst is when men use religion and the Bible as justification for it. Please steer clear of ultra religious types
 

Lynx

Folksy yet erudite
Aug 13, 2014
27,418
9,405
113
#13
I dunno... I've met a lot of women who are into that coercive control stuff too. :cautious:

Like I said before, makes me soooooo happy I'm single.
 

kinda

Senior Member
Jun 26, 2013
3,931
1,506
113
#15


Now to the unmarried and the widows I say: It is good for them to stay unmarried, as I do.
 
I

IFOLLOWHIM

Guest
#16
Amen to the title of thread!
Been there...done that!
 
I

IFOLLOWHIM

Guest
#18
Me too! Never again... I will wait for amazing and peace.



This is why I have now found peace and happiness in being single!
IN Jesus I am complete. He never asked the impossible without supplying His Amazing Grace and a way for me to carry through!
 

BrotherMike

Be Still and Know
Jan 8, 2018
1,617
1,671
113
#19
This is why I have now found peace and happiness in being single!
IN Jesus I am complete. He never asked the impossible without supplying His Amazing Grace and a way for me to carry through!
This is true... Jesus completes us, people on earth compliment us. I’m in no rush, I’ll bask in Gods presence as I wait...
 
Mar 4, 2020
87
35
18
#20
Please get to know someone for who they really are. God wants the best for you♡
While I seen twin flames,soul mates, and seeing a women turn in to the devil after being married. Hah starting all over am going to try taking my time and going to a Christian Church for a couple of year before putting a ring on it. Being single isn't that bad just don't make to many people jeulous 🥰