Tag: ache of singlehood

Desiring Marriage: What Are We Really Talking About Here?

Julieanne Bartlett January 20, 2020 0 Comments
Desiring Marriage: Just What Are We Really Talking About Here? I believe that most of us desire marriage. I also believe this desire is good and right and God-given. Having struggled into my early forties to see my own desire for marriage fulfilled, I want to encourage others that hope can be found.  As such, I think it would be a good idea to discuss what I mean when I use the word...

Passion of Hope: The Real Via Dolorosa

Julieanne Bartlett December 6, 2019 0 Comments
The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines hope as a desire with expectation of obtainment or fulfillment. And this is exactly what I had: a desire to get married. A hope to meet someone I would connect with and to get married.  I had this hope all through my twenties, my thirties, and my forties. By my mid-thirties, however, this desire no longer felt like hope. It had begun to feel like...

Finding the Truth of My Calling to Marriage

Julieanne Bartlett November 15, 2019 0 Comments
It was the year 2004 and I was several months shy of turning 36 years old. I had just come out of an unrealistic, but in my mind hopeful relationship. During its four-month lifespan, I was happy and not lonely, excited for my future for the first-time in a very long while. I experienced a renewed sense of energy that had been missing.  When the relationship ended, so did all of these. ...
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