Try our new email daily devotional. Life today is WAY too busy. Take some time to STOP and look around . For singles, how well they handle the emotional demands of being single, especially when they are romantically unattached, will often depend on creating and maintaining a supportive friendship network.
Friendship enables single men and women to have intimacy on their own terms.
Unlike marriage, friendship does not involve their entire life, a status shift, a change in living arrangements, or a new name. In the absence of marriage these single adults noted the importance of substitute networks of human relationships that met their needs for intimacy, sharing and continuity. I am reminded of how important friends were to me during my 20's and 30's, when I was single. I continued by explaining to him that if I were married, I could relocate my spouse and children, if need be. But since I was single, my family consisted of several close, unrelated friendships that I had developed over the years.