Article June 17, 1996 Issue

Companionship: the spiritual facts

Gretchen Garrity

An unhappy first marriage ended in divorce and left me a single parent with a young child to raise. Long after the divorce and several failed relationships later, I seemed no nearer to finding that "right" person than before. I spent years swinging back and forth between yearning for a husband and trying to convince myself I didn't need companionship. Needless to say, neither mood brought happiness or a sense of completeness.

Slowly, I began to realize that certain false beliefs had been dominating my thought. I saw that relationships based largely on physical attraction are not sound. They stem from the belief that man is a biological being, governed by physical impulses that are in direct opposition to the moral law taught by Christ Jesus and by Moses in the Ten Commandments.

Also, I often had mulled over the notion that I was in a group of individuals destined to singlehood by statistical data. There just weren't enough men to go around! Yet the view that God and His creation are out of balance and limited, I began to see, is a misperception.

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