When I graduated college I felt prepared enough for marriage and even motherhood. After all, since I was two-years-old I played with dolls and watched my mom. It wasn’t long afterwards that I answered the question, “What do you want to be when you grow up?”, with “a mommy”. A husband and children were my dream.
What I wasn’t prepared for is what life offered me instead – a prolonged season of singleness.
No one prepared me for living on my own, making decisions on my own, the intense loneliness I would feel, or wondering if I just wasn’t worth a husband. And no one prepared me for how to live my single life with purpose and confidence and integrity. I just wasn’t prepared.
There are many blogs to help moms prepare their daughters to be homemakers, wives, and mothers. But shouldn’t we also be preparing our daughters for singleness? Afterall, the age of first-time marriages is increasing, and as much as we want to pretend this won’t be our daughter’s story, it most likely will be.
So how do you prepare your daughter for singleness? Read more in my article on iBelieve.com.
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