By: Chad Kritzberger
This article strikes me as being somewhat unfair to those who are single not by choice by by default. Many of us who cannot marry for a variety of reasons desperately desire the opportunity to give...
View ArticleBy: Joseph Bolin
Look again at the title of the post, "Why not marrying may <i>seem</i> selfish". Nowhere in the post do I say that "being single is selfish"; I say, in effect, that (1) being single because...
View ArticleBy: John Book
However, Chad does make a good point of the perceived unfairness. I don't think you did a good enough job delineating the selfishness from any given vocational choice. The way you title the post...
View ArticleBy: Joseph Bolin
"Love is the answer to vocation, whether it is in marriage, single life, or priestly/religious life." That might do fine as an answer to the questions, "What does a vocation really come down to? What...
View ArticleBy: John Book
However, that there is the problem with the post. People might understand what you ultimately mean, but buried in there, it might get lost. Your thoughts would be better served if re-framed rather than...
View ArticleBy: anonymous
Why in the world should it even be thought in any sense that being single is selfish? Being single isn't a crime you know.
View ArticleBy: Joseph Bolin
That is exactly the question this post attempts to answer. It is an empirical fact that some people think that voluntarily remaining single is selfish. You're perfectly welcome to propose another...
View ArticleBy: Logan
Better to selfishly remain single than to be a judgmental busybody who is worried about whether I'm single or not.
View ArticleBy: Hidden One
I found the third sentence after the quotation perfectly clear, myself. Had I missed it, however, the fourth would have done just fine.
View ArticleBy: Taso Tofas
Thanks for this article Joseph. I think it is good. Your article provides ample space for saying that those who do not marry because they are unable to are not selfish. And I agree with you that those...
View ArticleBy: Dee Dee
The reason I looked up the thought of one being selfish who never married is because I heard this somewhere. As a single woman who made the choice to never marry (age 7) I am put off by the entire...
View ArticleBy: Dee Dee
Its better to be alone and actually correct to do those things that others see as selfish, than to be with someone and do those things that others see single people do and think is selfish…which can...
View ArticleBy: Andrew Hickman
I don't want to marry, because I just want to play video games. Why give up something grand, like playing video games just to marry a nagging wife, and have some crying, annoying kid? Kids are brats!!...
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