Episode 058: Being a Single Woman in a Married-with-Children Church

At Last She Said It

Cynthia Winward

Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

It's hard to ignore the fact that our church is heavily focused on the family. From the time we're young, Latter-day Saint girls are taught to expect and prepare for marriage and children as the centerpiece of our lives. And yet the majority of members worldwide are single. In this conversation, we're joined by our friend Mara to discuss some challenges of engaging in a church community where so much teaching and activity is geared toward one very specific ideal.

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0:00.0	Welcome to at last she said it. A podcast where women of faith come together to
0:06.6	acknowledge that it's complicated and support each other while we figure it out.
0:12.3	Okay Mara can you go ahead and tell us what you know?
0:16.2	What's something you know today?
0:18.2	Yes, I've been thinking about how I was going to answer this question and I I feel like the older I get, there are fewer things
0:25.1	that I know.
0:26.4	But one thing that I feel pretty confident about saying
0:28.9	that I know is that communication is important. I basically dedicate my entire career to
0:36.5	facilitating communication and I really believe that most people just kind of want to be
0:42.3	understood and so communication kind of makes that happen hopefully so I'll say communication
0:50.0	communication. I love that answer. This is why I love this question. I know it's great. We get such smart answers.
0:57.0	What a noble career. That's what I'm thinking when I hear about communication. That sounds
1:00.8	noble. Thanks Mara.
1:03.0	Hello friends and welcome to today's podcast episode.
1:11.0	I am Cynthia Wynward. I'm here with Susan Hinckley. How are you
1:15.3	Susan? I'm great Cynthia. How are you? I'm fine and hooray we have a guest today.
1:21.6	We're joined by Mara, and we are so excited to have her today. It's going to be obvious why we had her in just a minute. Our title for today is being a single woman in a married with children church.
1:36.6	Susan, this is officially a topic that you and I have no experience with,
1:42.4	being a single woman, a long time single woman in this church so
1:46.8	This might be why it's taking us until season three. I'm sure we have a lot of listeners who've been thinking, are you ever going to talk about being
1:53.6	single? And it's not that we haven't wanted to, but I mean it's not, that is just not in our
2:00.9	experience. Right. And we've had a lot of women on who have been single,
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