Why Aren’t You Dating?: Episode 812

When friends and family urge you to date, plus Hannah Schermerhorn on lessons she learned in singleness, and being a sympathetic listener. Featured musical artist: Love and the Outcome Roundtable: Feeling Pressured to Date Friends and family are our biggest cheerleaders, but it’s unhelpful when they keep asking, “Have you found someone yet?” If you’ve fielded that question for what seems like the thousandth time, what can you do? We share ideas for responding with grace when others pressure you to date. Leave us a Voicemail Culture: One Woman’s Singleness Journey For Hannah Schermerhorn, being single felt like admitting failure. After a broken engagement, she struggled to put the pieces of her heart together. But through that journey, she learned singleness can actually be a wonderful season with unexpected blessings. She joins us to tell her story, including an assurance that being a single adult doesn’t make you a second-class citizen. A Single Life to Live: Stop Waiting for Your Life to Begin and Thrive Where God Has You Today Inbox: How Can I Listen to a Friend’s Problem? When anyone approaches our listener with a problem, he finds himself wanting to give advice rather than listening and showing compassion. How can he beef up his listening skills? Counselor Linda Miller weighs in.