Comments on: Aren’t Ready for a Relationship Right Now?

By: babatunde ayobami

babatunde ayobami — Tue, 23 Aug 2016 14:11:42 +0000

i seriously need a man that believed in God to marry

By: Ashley Dewey

Ashley Dewey — Sun, 23 Feb 2014 15:01:01 +0000

Terrie, that is a good question. What I know is that my parents did not teach me to procrastinate or that it was too boring. In fact, thinking of all of my friends I would say that most of their parents also did not teach them those things. Parents for the most part are really gunho about the prospect of marriage. In all honesty I think that it is a defense mechanism. People say that they don’t want to get married so that they feel less badly about their lack of marital status. Unfortunately the world does try to make the single life seem glamorous. I don’t think that most people believe it though. Somewhere deep inside most people that I know sense the value of having a family. How do you teach your children about marriage?

By: Terrie Lynn Bittner

Terrie Lynn Bittner — Sat, 22 Feb 2014 22:13:32 +0000

Ashley, do you think parents are doing something to encourage this “not yet” attitude or is it a peer-driven problem or even a media-driven issue? I’m noticing more and more books and television programs focus on the “fun” single life, going on into later years. It seems like the authors of most of the mysteries I read think married life is too boring for the heroine of a series, so it gets hard to find married characters.