If you’re a happily single woman, I’d recommend keeping that to yourself. Not because the information itself is so very damning, but because there’s no good way to convey it—no safe way for those ...

Many people would say that to be truly happy, you need a person to share your life with. But is that really true? According to a study that followed the same people for 13 years to determine if ...

In 2019, actress Emma Watson brought attention to singledom — not simply by saying that she is happily single but by naming herself as “self-partnered.” It not only acknowledges the fact that being ...

She’s 70 and has lived alone her entire adult life. But when she told the world that this was by choice — and that she was happy and fulfilled — the response was overwhelming. Her personal story, and ...

At different times and different places, single people—especially women—have been tagged with all sorts of disparaging labels. That continues even now. The term spinster, which some are trying to ...

I’m a little ashamed to admit that I often fantasize about being single, considering I live with my long-term partner. Nevertheless, I do. No matter how much guilt I feel for longing for my Tinder ...

Emotionally, singles are systematically disadvantaged, but they are advantaged too. In “Affective intensities of single life,” published in the journal Sociology, the Finnish scholars Marjo ...

OLD MAID. SPINSTER. CHILDLESS CAT LADY. For literally centuries now, everyone from gossipmongers to vice presidential candidates has slung dismissive sobriquets to describe the single woman experience ...

One of the enduring tensions in the discussions of single life (and not just on this blog) is the belief on one side that single people could not possibly be happy (and if they say they are, they are ...

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If you’re a happily single woman, I’d recommend keeping that to yourself. Not because the information itself is so very damning, but because there’s no good way to convey it—no safe way for those ...