I see you and you're special. OK, my sentiment was a little less than kind, but the message is true. To be single is not to be alone. If someone asks if you are in a relationship right now, your immediate response should be that you are in dozens. Our range of relational options are not limited to getting married or to living in the sound-proof, isolated booth of Miss America pageants.
Christian growth mandates relational richness.
The only time folks talk about human covenants is in premarital counseling. If our God is a covenantal God then all of our relationships are covenantal. My relationships are not about how much friends should love me, they are about how much I get to love them. No single should ever expect relational impoverishment by virtue of being single. Many of my Vanderbilt girls have been reading Lady in Waiting , a popular book for Christian women struggling with singleness.