Savoring Singlehood: Nine Ways To Transform Your Single Life From Miserable To Marvelous

By Emily Josephine

Do you have trouble sleeping at night because you feel so lonely and yearn to find your soul mate? Are you stuck in a rut at your job, hoping that one day soon, your Knight In Shining Armor will come and rescue you out of it? Has dating become just a way to fill your time instead of a way to enjoy life and other people?

If any of that is true for you, then you are not enjoying your singlehood. In fact, if you are like many single people, you spend far too much time wallowing in misery, daydreaming about the your future life with someone you haven’t even met yet.

While this book does not promise to cure you of loneliness, envy, and longing, it DOES offer nine ideas that can alleviate the pain of an empty heart. These ideas invite you to delve into your creative self, to take a few risks, and generally to fill your free time with endeavors that will bring you fulfillment and/or future rewards. The ideas challenge you to challenge yourself, so that you can begin to transform your single life from miserable to marvelous.

While this book is targeted to single women without children, single men who do not have children can benefit from the ideas as well. Whatever your gender, these ideas will help you realize that there’s more to the single life than the dating game, or pining to meet your soul mate.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Emily Josephine
• Release date: Mar 28, 2017
• ISBN: 9781370999552

Emily Josephine

A former sugar addict, Emily is now a fervent health nut. A former schoolteacher, she is now an avid advocate of homeschooling. A former too-much-stuff-city-dweller, she is now living her dream as a semi-minimalist rural homesteader.In between planting seeds, reading to her son, and making videos of her homestead, Emily writes both non-fiction related to health and simple living, as well as inspirational novels with characters who are often as radically anti-mainstream as she is!

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Introduction

[Before I get into this book, I need to make an important point clear: I am targeting the information herein toward single women who do not have children. If you are a single parent, it’s a whole other ballgame. While some of the ten ideas listed in this book may help you, they may not simply because being a single parent takes up most, if not all, of your time.

Single childless men are welcome to read this book as well, though they will have to mentally modify certain phrases and pronouns.

And now, on with the content…]

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If I could go back in time, there are a whole lot of things I’d do differently. One of those things would be to enjoy my singlehood as much as possible. But I didn’t. Instead, I let my job that I didn’t like suck most of the energy out of my life so that I didn’t feel like doing anything that truly fulfilled me.

When I finally got to the point where I started to yearn for a lifetime companion, I spent what little energy I had thinking about how lonely I was and generally feeling sorry for myself, as well as envious of all the couples around me who seemed to have thriving relationships.

In short, I wasted my singlehood.

If you have downloaded this book, I suspect that you are in a similar situation. You either know or at least hope that your soul mate is out there somewhere, waiting for you, and you spend all of your free time worrying about whether you’ll ever find each other. And if you do, will you both live happily ever after, or will you experience a marriage full of struggle and heartache? Will he want as many kids as you do? What if he turns out to have a secret addiction? Will he still love you when you get old and wrinkled? What if one of you, after hitching together, changes his or her mind about spirituality, believing ideas that the other could never embrace?

Whoa! Slow down, girl! Talk about borrowing trouble. But if this is where your mind goes as you lie in bed by yourself, trying to get to sleep, you are in good company. Many single women worry over a future that may or may not happen, with a man they haven’t even met yet. They also plod through careers that they’ve decided they don’t like, tolerating their jobs because they believe that at any moment, Prince Charming (who has a great job that makes lots of money, don’t you know)