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Upping the Social Status by Engagement
04/27/06 - 06:11:52 pm
Categories: Personal, Engagement

I'm not even engaged for 24 hours and my social status has improved within my close work community. The majority are conservative evangelical Christians. These folk are nice people for sure, and I don't think verbally would agree that singleness is bad, but comments lead the recipient to believe otherwise. I have gone from a transient boy, flitting around to a man who now has his whole life secured. It is quite eerie.

Future Mrs. mindfulmission/kevin.php and I do not hold this same idea. For sure we are both excited to join our lives together and for sure we look forward to the things we will bring into our future together, however we do not see our lives prior to our engagement as being unfulfilled, nor would that have been unfulfilled if we never met.


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Comment from: angie [Visitor] · http://www.angie-wanderings.blogspot.com

Well, first of all, many congrats and as I told Leah, in my gut this one feels right! As someone who lives in a even more conservative evangelical community in a small rural location I cannot more heartily agree with the unspoken belief that marraige is a success symbol of sorts. Your newfound "success" makes you the perfect candidate to write about this myth- wait to go!

Angie

PermalinkPermalink 04/28/06 @ 16:31
Comment from: Michael [Visitor] · http://www.carstenseiler.com

My sister once went to a singles Sunday school class where one woman proudly proclaimed about her and her fiancee "We're graduating."

It's unfortunate that so many people in Evangelical circles tend to believe that you are not "complete" until you're married.

Of course, Jerry McGuire didn't help with that one...

PermalinkPermalink 05/12/06 @ 17:30
Comment from: Kevin [Member] Email

Ah yes, so true...good old Jerry McGuire. I liked that move though. The "shut up" line has become a classic.

PermalinkPermalink 05/12/06 @ 21:10

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