The story of single women

Being a single woman, uninterested in a man makes it difficult to have a connection to your own family at times. Women in family life have really chosen to adopt a way of life that feels natural. This being so, makes the independent woman unnatural in the eyes of some, maybe even in the eyes of the divorcee herself. Families could even be a symbol of failure in the social sphere of a divorcee.

People could choose to support independent women. They could accept her as ordinary, solitary, and complete in her own self. It sounds so easy and simple. Yet we know there are potential differences between how to interpret a single woman versus a coupled one. For family environments, this is particularly true.
I don't expect everyone to accept there are social difficulties arising from being single in a family orientated culture.
I do think it could be useful in our lives to be conscious of the fact that our communities are filled with individuals who are in many different stages of their life, who have different values than our own, and who are equally content being solo as some of us are being coupled.
In many subtle ways, we signal the existence of hierarchies within our community based on certain arbitrary values. The Church would be one where a family could be valued at a level higher than a divorced woman. It is past time that we shed such vague notions of satisfactory status from others. Acceptance and the lack of judgement can be the opening of a truly satisfactory existence. I see this in Mimi's story.