Christian dating advice for single moms

Enter your email to subscribe to this blog, receive newsletters, and to receive new posts by email. Email Address. I had the chance to give an interview for a podcast in which I spoke my top 3 important Christian single mom dating tips. Now before I get into the tips you can listen below to the full podcast interview where I explained the following tips in more detail, listen to the interview below.

Dating in a hook-up culture is rough enough, but adding a few kids into the mix only elevates the awkward factor. Just entering the dating pool after a long hiatus and subsequent divorce was a shock to my system. But eight years into marriage, my college sweetheart walked out the door. Like so many of you, I had some crazy dates. For instance, there was the guy I met on online who flew out from Colorado to join me and my kids at Disneyland with his daughter for the day.

We sat in our kitchen having a conversation that is, tragically, not very common: we talked about how a single mother was just married to a godly man. In an instant, this mother became a wife, and this husband became a father. Every wedding marks the beginning of a family, but these kinds do so in a uniquely palpable sense. Many mothers in our churches need husbands, and their children need fathers, yet for all the pro-family, pro-marriage, pro-life talk among Christian young men, weddings like the one I just mentioned are uncommon. Marriage, young men are told at youth camp, is our reward for not having sex in high school.

Single moms have it rough. Translation: Is this single mom aka hussie gonna steal my man? Or is it due to the possibility that she had a child out of wedlock? No one knows for sure, but this is exactly why dating for single Christian moms in the church can be one of the touchiest of issues.