I know that I’m supposed to feel self-conscious around the holidays, walking into all those holiday parties on my own when so many others are coupled-up. But I don’t. In fact, I feel both happy and proud. …
I’m always on the lookout for novels that include great single characters who are not just caricatures who are looking for romantic love. I want single protagonists who are passionate about something other than the quest to unsingle themselves. I want to see their non-romantic relationships depicted in ways that…
Asked how he was going to spend Thanksgiving, a Texas professor told NPR, “I plan to spend Thanksgiving alone. I want to spend part of the day reading, and part of the day walking as far away from the city as I can get.” …
I like to write about people who are single at heart — people who love their single lives and who feel that single is who they really are. I recognize, though, that there are plenty of single people who really do want to be coupled. I write less about them…
I’ve been asked the same question several times over the past week or so: Are there any movies featuring characters who are Single at Heart? I wish there were so many, I could rattle off a very long list. …
In the Community of Single People, someone just asked if anyone had read Catherine Gray’s book, The Unexpected Joy of Being Single. I reviewed it a few years ago, but since that review is no longer available online, I’m sharing it here.
In The Unexpected Joy of Being Single, author…
Paul McCartney is not just who you think. He is also an author. His two-volume collection of essays, The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present, will be published on November 2. …
Jaclyn Geller is guest-posting here to share her bold (and sometimes hilarious) Call to Action for single people who are tired of the pervasive unfairness that advantages married people and deeply disadvantages anyone who is not officially married. Geller, an English professor and author of Here Comes the Bride: Women…
With the help of some brilliant minds among the membership of the Community of Single People, I am going to make fun of an article published at Politico about why so many people watch reality dating series such as The Bachelor. Happily, though, the news of the past week is…
“Rising share of U.S. adults are living without a spouse or partner,” declared a report just released by the Pew Research Center. The report also documents ways in which single men are falling behind partnered men economically.
The report has unleashed a torrent of singlism (the stereotyping and stigmatizing of…
“America’s foremost thinker and writer on the single experience,” according to the Atlantic. Author of “Singled Out.” Harvard PhD www.belladepaulo.com
