Why aren't you married???????????

[APreyear]

Why aren't you married?" has to be the single most asked question I get at this point in my life. What does a person mean when he poses this question?
Is he really asking me, "What is wrong with you?" It sure feels like it!

Although I usually give a polite response such as, "I am just waiting on God," what I really want to shout at the top of my lungs is: "To tell you the truth--I don't know. But I am not really worried about it. I am happy just the way I am. Now leave me alone!"

Singleness, first of all, is not a sickness to be cured, a disease to rid the world of or a plague that threatens the very fabric of our culture. There is absolutely nothing wrong with being single.

I don't need deliverance from singlehood. I don't need healing from it. I am just fine. I'm normal, healthy and whole.

When David wrote, "I am fearfully and wonderfully made; marvelous are Your works" (Ps. 139:14, NKJV), he wasn't talking about being paired in a perfect union with another person. He meant that he was fabulous exactly the way God made him.

For the record: Yes, I want to get married one day. Yes, I want to have children.

Yes, I know I am 31. But I also know that God has a divine and awesome plan for my life. He has started a good work in me and will be faithful to complete it (see Phil. 1:6).

At the right time He will reveal the right person, and I will no longer be single. But in the meantime--and I want to be very clear about this--I am single. I am not impaired, and neither are you!

[Lisa Renee Jones]

Amen, I get that question all the time too!!!!! It is really getting on my nerves too!!!! I was married once to a minister but He wasn't married to me!! LOL...I can laugh about it now, but it used to keep me up crying all night! I need a lot of help and GOD knows that and he is preparing me....But I just answer politely like you said and move on!!! I don't rush GOD, I thank him for preparing me to learn how to love my husband, and I thank him for preparing my husband to learn to love me, because he will have a lot to love!!!! LOL!!! :)

[Tara Robinson]

Amen my sister i get asked that same question sometimes and i feel as single people we should not have to defend why we are single we are blessed that we don't have the hassles most people do being married now don't get me wrong marriage is a wonderful thing i know i tried it once but i am just saying being single is having a peace you don't always get having kids and being married or just having kids period. However for those of us who feel out of place because your not married trust that really you should enjoy your singleness while you can because really to tell the truth can't no man make you as happy as God can and when you have all your time and effort focused on pleasing God life is so much better so to answer the question why i am single is because i am not ready yet to be married because if i was then i would have met the man god has for me by now so i am still growing learning and getting stable in my relationship with him god and when he sees fit then i will be ready. god bless my sista.