sometimes i wonder how many versions of myself i’ve outgrown without even noticing. i look back at old photos and remember the thoughts i used to carry, the dreams i thought would save me. it’s strange how you can live inside yourself every day and still not realize you’re evolving. it’s only when you look back that you realize how far you’ve come, how many lives you’ve already lived in the same skin.
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I feel for all of the Christian men and non-Christian men struggling to find a wife. Here is my recommendation from a 70-year-old who has been happily married 44 years with three daughters - two of which are married with their own children and the last one in a serious relationship that will hopefully lead to marriage.
Go to a older married Christian couple whom you trust and respect (if your own parents don't fit the bill) and ask them to help you find a wife. This may sound very old-fashioned,…
Your suggestion greatly assumes that older married people as a group genuinely care about helping single Christians find spouses and form families.
I would suggest that church communities take on the collective burden of starting a personal classifieds page where local Christian singles can identify themselves as looking for a spouse and/or also looking for marriage-related counsel from older married couples. Or communities can just have a old school bulletin board where men and women can post t…
I'm not assuming anything. There are older, mature married Christian couples who don't care, but there are those - like my wife and I and others I know - that do care and have and would be willing to do assist in the future. Those men looking for a wife should seek them out - and vice a versa.
I have no objection to your suggestion, but what is needed is a more personal, human to human approach rather than another social media-driven approach.
How is a busy single man with many work obligations supposed to find these older married couples who want to help him find a wife?
A practical roadmap could be helpful to accompany your suggestion. Perhaps older married couples could advertise their matchmaking help and marriage counsel in the local church newsletter?
