Playing With Matches!
Marriage was God's idea in the first place! He's the one who said it wasn't good for man to be alone.
The desire to be matched with a spouse is God-breathed.
Playing With Matches explores God's plan for a man and a woman to discern if they are a good match.
If you, or someone you know, is looking for a Christian guidebook of sorts, Playing With Matches shares Godly principles for dating and is chock full of real-life stories to learn from!
But Isn't Detachment Kind Of Mean? Benevolent Detachment #4 of 5
Ever heard of "Failure to Launch"? It's a counseling term that describes a parent/child relationship where a child remains dependent on their parent into their adult years.
They may or may not still live at home, but they depend on their parents for emotional support or financial aid, or they expect their parents to validate their situation. They believe they can't be expected to move forward because of their extenuating circumstances.
Now, don't get me wrong, of course there are actually extenuating circumstances at times, but for the most part, there is something amiss in the expectations. Let me explain.
When someone feels the need to help someone else out by taking care of things for them when they are actually capable of caring for themselves, that is actually mean. It's infantizing. The result is that the person being "helped" doesn't grow up. Doesn't learn to do things for themselves. To adult.
It seems obvious when you look at it in certain ways:
- We would...
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