330: How Soon Should A Widow "Move On"?
The Jamie Grace Podcast
Jamie Grace
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🗓️ 30 March 2019
⏱️ 11 minutes
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When you have lost the love of your life, you are facing the unimaginable. Today's question comes from a listener who isn't sure she's ready to date again but feels the pressure from those in her community to try. She is raising her daughter by herself and worries that she's being selfish by wanting to alone. What should she do?
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| 0:00.0 | Hey friends. It's Jamie Grace. Welcome to the Jamie Grace podcast. I don't really know how to set up today's questions, so I'm just going to jump right into it. She says, hey Jamie, I recently started following your videos on YouTube and love the uplifting atmosphere you bring. I just want to know what you would suggest |
| 0:15.2 | for people going back into singleness. |
| 0:17.4 | I'm 23 years old and recently widowed |
| 0:19.5 | and I get a lot of advice from people trying |
| 0:21.4 | to hook me up with someone when I just feel like being alone. |
| 0:24.9 | It's just been over a year of singleness yet. |
| 0:27.4 | It's like people expect me to move on, move on from that as soon as possible. |
| 0:31.8 | I have a beautiful two-year-old baby girl and I feel like I'm depriving |
| 0:34.6 | her of the opportunity to grow up with a dad, all because of my selfishness, or because of my selfish |
| 0:39.8 | need for some time and space. Just thought I'd ask. Thank you for what you do. B. |
| 0:45.9 | Wow, B. I don't know how, I don't know how, I don't know all of the things to say. I don't know the right things to say and I'm |
| 0:54.7 | I'm probably gonna mess up and I'm sorry but I'm just my heart hurts for what you and |
| 1:01.1 | your daughter have gone through and I'm so sorry. |
| 1:04.6 | I want to start with your answers backwards actually. |
| 1:07.9 | So the last thing that you said is you feel like you're depriving your daughter of the |
| 1:12.4 | opportunity to grow up with a dad because of your selfish need for some time and space. |
| 1:17.0 | I just want to obviously just like love on you because this is like really difficult and I want you to just |
| 1:24.3 | fill all the love and support but I also want to just tell you real quick that you're wrong because |
| 1:29.3 | you're not selfish for needing time and space. That's normal, that's healthy, you need to take time and space and you're not |
| 1:39.5 | selfish. And if it is being selfish, then it's okay to be selfish right now because you're going through the |
| 1:45.4 | unimaginable and so I want to just if I can just offer you grant to you the freedom to take time and to have space, especially in the context of dating. |
| 2:01.0 | I don't know if you have, and I'm not saying that this solves all the problems in the world or anything. I don't know if you have sought out like one-on-one counseling or counsel with like a licensed |
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