This is an odd prompt for me right now. I thought for some days about what to take a picture of because nothing is terribly obvious in my current life circumstances.
The best picture I could think of is a path.
Why?
I know that sometimes, people who have been through a similar life experience decide that they are done with love and romance, and they just want to be single forever.
I don’t feel that way, though.
My life might be romance-less at the moment, but I still believe in love, and I have hope that somewhere down the path, there is healthy, mutual love and romance waiting for me.
Maybe the path will be long or rocky, but I hope there will be some lovely scenery along the way. 🙂
I feel like I fell down the rabbit hole into the Frugal Christian Kardashian.
“it burns us”
I feel the same way. I have a lot of life left to go and have something worth offering and I just need to happen upon the right situation at the right time. {Otherwise, its not too romantic} I’m sure my path will be long, not sure about rocky, and I’m in no hurry. Just going to live life to the fullest as it comes. And that makes for the best scenery. (:
I hope that your path and mine both lead to a happy, mutual love. 🙂
What a prompt for someone in your position, Kristen – goodness. You handled it well.
I like romance itself – the real thing, not Hallmark Channel romance, but I think I am done with it. These days I am less a wife and more a caretaker, and that’s not very romantic. Obviously, since I’m married, I have no intention of looking for new romance at this point! Should I become widowed, however, I have no plan to look for it then, either. I am glad I’m married, love my husband, love my kids and grandkids, but I have no intention of getting romantically involved with anyone if I become single again. Of course, I’m not young anymore, either. That might make a difference.
In the exact same frame of mind and also not young anymore! ☺️
Kristen, today’s post is yet another example of your beautiful nature.
🙂
Aww, thank you, Molly!
You are right. Life and love are paths. Everyone’s is different and only you & God know what is best for you. After getting out of an abusive marriage 5 years ago, I couldn’t imagine I would think about romance, at anytime in the future. But God – He knows our situations, our hearts & the possibilities.
I had many years of single life between my marriages and can easily say now that meeting my current husband at 49 was well worth the wait! There were many things I liked about single life although I also knew I wanted romance and love again. My parents divorced after 25 years of marriage and they were 45 and 46 years old (I believe) and my father remarried at close to 70!! He was very career focused but as soon as he met his second wife, he focused on retirement with
her.
I love how honest you are and how you handle things like this prompt as they come your way.
As a teen and young adult, my favorite reads were always romantic novels. So I grew up looking for a romance and ultimately marriage. I thought I’d found it, but I was wrong and felt deceived by my spouse as he was not interested in romance. I decided to live with my choice – for 32 years – until I’d had enough of the loneliness. Eighteen months after the divorce, romance finally found me and our love affair and marriage has been exactly what I wanted for 25 years. He was well worth the wait!
What a beautiful, bittersweet post. I was widowed at 52 and four years later, I still am unable to fathom another relationship. It still feels too soon for me. However, I do find myself thinking a bit about it now and recognize that maybe someday I will. All best to you. I just “retired” from being a nurse after 36 years. Life is certainly an adventure.
I can imagine that a path after widowhood is very, very different than the path after the ending of a painful marriage, and I can also imagine that the process of being ready for a new love interest might be way slower. That makes lots of sense to me.
My mum was married to my father for 18 years when he left her for a younger woman. My mum waited 8 years and then met the love of her life. 19 years later they are still like newlyweds x