Singles

One of the most common responses we hear from course participants and subscribers, especially those who are women, is “I wish I would have known all this when I was younger.” While Dr. Finlayson-Fife’s courses have a focus on marital relationships, the principles in all of her material are paradigm altering, regardless of whether you have a significant other and/or children in your life. Many single members of the church have found the materials to be pertinent, valuable, and worth sharing with among the LDS single community. Even through the lens of a single person, Jennifer’s pod...

While in Utah to record courses, Dr. Finlayson-Fife took a side trip to Provo where BYU Radio's Julie Rose interviewed her about Navigating Sexuality as a Chaste Single. The link will autoplay the audio, but it may take up to a minute to start!

In the final podcast in a 3-part series on sexuality, marriage, and singlehood, Candice Madsen interviews Dr. Finlayson-Fife and Dr. Jason Carroll, BYU professor of family life.  Links to transcripts and videos can be found here: Q and A: How singles can embrace both chastity and sexuality (+video) You can find the first two podcasts in that series here: If there is a secret to marriage, it just may be commitment Love, marriage and the single woman stuck writing about it

The text below was adapted from a presentation given by Dr. Finlayson-Fife at the "Of One Body" Singles Conference in New York City on May 16, 2015 To listen to the audio recording of this presentation click HERE. When I told a friend recently that I would be presenting in NYC on Singles and Sexuality, she smiled and asked “Is there any overlap between those two topics?  What on earth are you going to talk about?” Of course, what is comical about her question is that it exposes the deep-seated desire among us, especially among those of us who are married, to pretend that the sexuality of Sin...