Grieving Singlehood
To introduce ourselves, we're a young, multicultural couple. He's American, and she's Swedish. We met just over 18 months ago in a small town in the south of France. Since then we have traveled - more in the last year than a lot of people will ever do their whole lives - if the theme of ‘transition’ doesn’t capture our lives together so far, there are very few other terms that might do a better job. In these months, we’ve lived in 6 different countries: Got engaged in one, married in another. And our family of two will become three in yet another country; in a month's time. We don’t say this to boast, but to summarize how our lives have been. Transition is almost never easy and frequently comes with stages of grief, anxiety, joy, and excitement. While marriage, covenant, and family make up something that’s pretty amazing, that doesn’t mean that giving up singlehood is easy. As we’re preparing for what is probably the greatest transition so...