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Prolonged Singleness Encouragement Group Forming January 2025

Julieanne Bartlett December 9, 2024 0 Comments

I’m very excited to announce that I will be hosting an online encouragement group for those struggling with prolonged singleness. This group will begin in January 2025 and take place on the last Sunday of each month, starting at 1PM Pacific Time/4PM Eastern Time. (There will be no group meetings in April and December 2025) The first group will be Sunday, January 26, 2025. The purpose of...

Events that May Interest You

Julieanne Bartlett May 6, 2024 2 Comments

Happy Spring! I wanted to reach out and let you know of three different items available for you. Please see the details below for more information: Mourning Glory Grief Podcast. I was a guest on this podcast recently, getting to discuss prolonged singleness and the grief experienced by singles when the desire for marriage goes unfulfilled. This is a sadness that is often unacknowledged. I...

Biblical Principles for Dating: Do you need some holy help?

Julieanne Bartlett July 22, 2023 0 Comments

Hello Everyone! Are you tired of the confusion and uncertainty that often comes with modern dating? Come learn from the Bible! Let it help you make dating less painful. We felt alone and lonely on our journey many times. We know what it’s like to be discouraged by and perplexed about the dating landscape. We had to figure out how to put ourselves “out there” so as to meet a suitable...

Reasons for Prolonged Singleness Part 6

Julieanne Bartlett February 10, 2023 2 Comments

Hello! I hope you are doing well. It’s hard to believe we have moved into 2023 already, it being halfway through the month of February. There is so much to look forward to with God. I want to thank you for staying with me, bearing in patience as I have missed several month’s blog posts. I won’t bore you with all the details of my difficult year; suffice it to say that 2022 was a challenge...

Reasons for Prolonged Singleness Part 4

Julieanne Bartlett August 22, 2022 4 Comments

Hello everyone and happy summer! Thank you all so much for allowing me a much- needed break over the past couple of months. I so appreciate that you continue to read my blog posts and seek God for marriage. I have been writing about various topics in a series on reasons for prolonged singleness. So far, we have looked at (a lack of understanding regarding) the universal vocation to marriage and...

Reasons for Prolonged Singleness Part 1

Julieanne Bartlett March 29, 2022 2 Comments

Prolonged Singleness. When I first heard the term applied to my struggle of finding a husband, I was strangely comforted. There was a name for what I was dealing with. I was in my mid-thirties at the time and had been unable to maintain a relationship with a man to marriage. In my blog post, “Prolonged Singleness: Are You Stuck in the Single State?,” I shared my discovery of the concept of...

The Struggle to Marry

Julieanne Bartlett September 10, 2021 6 Comments

I first began hearing that there was a vocation to the single life over 15 years ago, when I, myself, was still single. In my late thirties, I was discouraged, and seriously seeking God for a spouse. Various individuals would routinely comment to me that perhaps I was called to be single. I believe this comment was offered by well-meaning folks who lacked a theological foundation on how to offer...

Prolonged Singleness and the Bible: A Study of Tobit Part II

Julieanne Bartlett June 4, 2021 4 Comments

Last month in my blog post entitled, Prolonged Singleness and the Bible: A Study of Tobit Part I, I provided a summary of the Book of Tobit. I especially related how God pointed me to the book of Tobit when I was single and had lamented to him that although there were women in the Bible that battled infertility, there was no one that ever struggled to get married. He showed me I was wrong....

Prolonged Singleness and the Bible: A Study of Tobit Part I

Julieanne Bartlett May 21, 2021 0 Comments

When I was in my mid-thirties and really struggling with this entire singleness issue, I asked God why no one in the Bible ever struggled to get married? I complained to him that there were several women in the bible who had wrestled with infertility – Sarah, Hannah, and Elizabeth. He saw their pain and performed a miracle, thus enabling each one to bear and birth a child. ...

The Vocation Awakening

Julieanne Bartlett April 30, 2021 0 Comments

When I was in my thirties and stuck in prolonged singleness, I was desperately afraid that God had called me to the single life. This was compounded by the feedback and responses I would receive from well-meaning people I would speak to about my grief and suffering regarding my desire to be married. The typical, yet painful, reply was, “Maybe you need to accept that God has no one for you,”...

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