Relationship Status: It's Complicated!

It’s Complicated.

So says the relationship status for one of my Facebook ‘friends’.

For the Facebook (FB) uninitiated among us…..(there is no condemnation if you are not on FB, so please don’t feel bad that you are not addicted like the rest of us). Let me start again…..for the FB uninitiated among us, allow me to explain. When one signs up on FB, you can provide as much or as little personal information as you desire. One of the categories that you are asked about is your ‘relationship status’.

You can tell the world that you are

single,
married,
engaged,
in a relationship,
in an open relationship,
widowed,
separated,
divorced,
in a civil union,
in a domestic partnership
it’s complicated.

Over the years of being on Facebook, I’ve decided that “It’s Complicated” is usually FB-ese for “I’m doing something I should not be doing”. Am I wrong? There are plenty of options given by FB that would clarify one’s relationship status totally. ‘It’s complicated’ is intended to be cloudy and murky.

If there were a heavenly Facebook…..

what would your status be with regard to your relationship with Jesus?

Married (for eternity),
In an open relationship (where you acknowledge Him on Sunday and live like you want to through the week),
Separated (you once loved Him with all your heart, but now that love has grown cold),
It’s complicated (you are out doing stuff you know is wrong and don’t want to have to explain it).