A friend sent me an absolutely beautiful article written by Chani Juravel, LCSW, in The Voice of Lakewood. I so appreciate supportive sentiments like these. So often, people fall short of being actually supportive by qualifying their statements instead of going in 100% in support without also mixing in some blame/responsibility. Grateful for an article that does none of that.
Singlehood challenges our illusions and boxes. Singles who have everything going for them force us to face the harsh, box-less fact that doing everything right doesn’t ensure success. We can’t always have it all, in spite of it seeming that we deserve to. We don’t always live the life we want to be living, and we don’t know why.
And:
The singles I am privileged to know…may be better at dating and communicating and davening than any of their married friends. And they have no proof of any of that work and get no credit for it.
Omg, yes.
Full article here.
