First Time Bride at 60: The Waiting Wasn’t Wasted! Dr. Michelle Watson Canfield Ep. 409

About this episode

Dr. Michelle Watson Canfield shares her journey of finding love later in life and discusses the challenges faced by single women.

Today we are getting back to basics! One of the reasons I started Love & Life was to share my journey to finding love, not settling along the way, and building a community to support other women in similar situations. So here to discuss her own journey finding love later, I'm joined by Dr. Michelle Watson Canfield. What do you do when the thing you’ve prayed for never seems to arrive? For many single women, the journey can be filled with confusing messages, unwanted advice, and painful assumptions. You’re told you’re too picky. Too independent. Too successful. Too intimidating. And as the years pass, those voices can only get louder. Dr. Michelle Watson Canfield shares her story today on how she too (like me) found love later in life. We discuss singleness, waiting, healing, loneliness, and the surprising ways God works in seasons that don’t unfold according to our timelines. Together we share our stories of becoming brides later in life—after decades of unanswered questions, surrendered dreams, heartbreak, personal growth, and learning to trust God when the future remained uncertain. We also explore the pressure many women feel to settle, the fear of missing out on marriage…

People in this episode

Hosts: Dr. Karin, Pastor Elliott

Guest: Dr. Michelle Watson Canfield

Topics covered

• finding love
• singleness
• waiting
• healing
• loneliness
• faith

Keywords

• love
• relationships
• single women
• healing
• faith
• loneliness
• marriage
• personal growth

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