Dating

Singlehood

Are you willing to wait for love?

Waiting has always been a dreadful process to me, a word I’ve hated since I was young. Whether it was going to the swimming pool or getting something I wanted, I always had to wait for it. I...

Singlehood

I don’t want to be single forever

What’s your greatest fear? Cockroaches? Heights? Roller coasters? Those are pretty bad, but my greatest fear isn’t any of those things. I fear being single for life. No partner, no proposals,...

Dating

I couldn’t wait to kiss dating hello

I’ll be honest: Turning 21 and finding myself still single whilst watching more and more of my friends start dating was painful. In a culture that still finds it abnormal to remain single for a...

Relationships

How to fight well in a relationship

Before we got together as a couple, Cheryl and I had known each for almost a decade. In all those years as friends, we were amicable on the whole. And after a period of exclusive dating, when we got...

Relationships

You deserve God’s best

Two years ago, without fully knowing that I had feelings for her, my best friend of 11 years invited me to go to a Christian seminar on dating with her. I sat beside her awkwardly, waiting in tepid...

Relationships

She wanted to be a boy, and I loved her

I met Cassie when we were 17, at a leadership camp in school. We were assigned to sleep in the same bunk with a couple of other girls, and it wasn’t long before I noticed that she was strangely...

Relationships

Should we move in together before getting married?

“You should move in with him before there’s no way out!” My recently engaged friend shared with me that her colleagues were encouraging her to cohabitate with her boyfriend. Their...

Relationships

The sting of rejection

“I’m so sorry, but I just don’t see you in that way…” The camera cuts to a wide shot of two individuals at a 45º angle, then pans between one pensive face and another (devastated) one. An...

Relationships

Help, I think my professor likes me

“Hi Carmen, I was wondering if you would like to come down earlier before your consultation? Perhaps we could go for lunch?” My already furiously beating heart raced even faster and I could feel...