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Well that certainly sucks altogether. Doesn’t it? Well i would really say so since there are many of us very good innocent men out there that would’ve wanted to be in a relationship had we met the Right Good Woman for us which unfortunately it still hasn’t happened yet. Who would ever want to be single at anytime let alone Christmas?
Yes, Tina! Things aren’t good in the world today and confusion grows bigger as days go by and we don’t know what to
expect! One thing is for sure and that is that we must be more careful than ever, and I’m telling from my own experience
as my personal world came to pieces and darkness began to maraud me in the form of the weirdest and most bizarre
people you can ever imagine as being alive and walking on earth today. But, yes. There they are and they are certainly
not good. I’m also a single man and I’m the loneliest human being on earth without hope of ever getting someone to talk
to me or befriend me. I’ve been years and years looking for my lady and not a sound of her yet, but I don’t give up because
I know she is there somewhere. I just have to keep on looking and making a real effort, as all good things unequivocally
require, because she is certainly there, somewhere, right now. Whatever is going on that is causing all of this darkness is
certainly not normal. And I’m sure that at a given moment we don’t know when, our eyes are going to be opened to something
and that something is big. So the best thing to do is to make all efforts no matter how big, to find your soulmate and love
each other a lot and bring children to the world, sons and daughters, because that is our only hope and the very thing that
this evil something is definitely and seriously opposed to, as I can tell from my own experience as attacks against my person
are stronger and more direct and more evidently caused by the fact that I’m seriously trying to find my future wife. Whatever
it might be, there can be no doubt left in my mind that it is attacking me for trying to find my lady. I’m sure that others will
experience the same at a some point. But let us no be scared! Don’t give up hope, Tina! And I hope I can get to meet people
like you! God bless you!
Although I am a lady who is single, I wanted to thank you for this post. I see all of the things going on in the Church and in the world today, and it makes things seem even more dark. God bless all of you.
Thank you. I also have chronic depression and come from a family of people who suffer from (mostly untreated) chronic depression. I’m married for nearly 20 years and have two fantastic teenagers who are still as excited about Christmas now as when they were three. There have been many years I’ve wanted to go to bed on Dec. 23 and not wake up until Dec. 26.
I’ve had the “let’s not…” conversation with myself, laying in bed on Christmas morning, while I’ve been struggling to make myself get out of bed and put on a happy face, so I didn’t ruin Christmas for my family. I’ve counted the hours until I could justify hiding in the bedroom for the rest of the day (my sister still does this). And I know that there have been times that my wife has known it was a happy face and has locked herself in the bathroom to cry.
Single or married, I’m truly glad for you that you made it through the darkness that the holidays can be for those of us with depression. And I’m glad you’ve got a loving family to support you through it.
Hi, Michael… Some friends of mine have a son who was also lonely and hoping to meet a good Catholic wife. Through the Catholic Match services, he found the right person and is now happily married. There is someone out there looking for you. Let’s pray to Good St. Anne that she brings you together.
PJ Webber, your response is baffling to me. It’s exactly the kind of attitude that singles dread hearing. He said nothing about his dating status or desire for a wife or girlfriend. At the present time, he seems to be happy and not battling depression. Why not leave it at that? Why promise him that “someone out there is looking for him?” How exactly is that supposed to be helpful? Why do you assume that’s what he wants?
And if you’d bothered to check Mr. Lichens’s personal blog which is linked to here, you’d see that a) his depression is chronic, b) he never once says anything about whether a “good Catholic wife” would make a difference – I assume he’s smart enough to know that it wouldn’t, and c) this article was written in 2014 so I don’t expect him to respond to any of the discussion here.
Sounds more like an ad to me anyway.
Sounds as though you’re happily settled, and I thank God you are. But my friend & I are both in our 80s,single by consecration and childless. I have no close family and hers are all busy in their individual households. We have a friendly church, but there’s a lot of the Days of Christmas that isn’t church.
And we have problems. My friend is slipping into increasing cognitive impairment, and we frankly would rather be dead. No we won’t kill ourselves,nor each other, but the dying process and finale is the only sure thing to anticipate. Please be more realistic about the situation of some of your readers. There’s an ad on this page urging me to “join the Gentleman’s Society.” Thanks, but we’re Gentlewomen.
Enjoy your Christmas
You do understand that this is a “gentleman’s” blog, don’t you?
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