PERSPECTIVES → FAMILY FIRST INBOX Issue 955 · March 29, 2023

Family First Inbox: Issue 837

“While so much of the ‘adulting’ process revolves around marriage, it’s questionable whether this actually prepares one for marriage”

Family First Inbox: Issue 837
Happily Unmarried [Words Unspoken / Issue 835]

I read the Words Unspoken and marveled at it. Dear friend, you’ve got it all wrong!

You write, “B’ezras Hashem, one day soon, you will hold your ticket to happiness.” Does marriage equal happiness?

Happiness isn’t something handed to you in a ticket called marriage, or any ticket for that matter. Happiness isn’t something to queue up or wait for; it’s something developed within yourself and is irrelevant to marital status.

My life isn’t a miserable life of standing in line to wait for a ticket to happiness, nor is it one of watching carriages of time advance. I have neither strength nor courage; I simply am enjoying the life Hashem has given me.

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