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How To Be OK With Being Married

It’s not the end of the world just because you’re not single

5 min read6 days ago

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How To Be OK With Being Married

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Why Are Single Women So Often Ignored by Political Candidates?

What should candidates do to try to reach single women?

5 min readApr 1, 2024

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Why Are Single Women So Often Ignored by Political Candidates?

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How to Know If Single Life Is for You

Four tips from my new book for figuring it out

3 min readMar 22, 2024

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How to Know If Single Life Is for You

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Fairness for Friends

Rewriting laws and policies to benefit, protect, and value our friends

6 min readMar 3, 2024

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Fairness for Friends

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Appreciating Special Experiences When You Are Alone

If you don’t need to be with another person to appreciate things, you have limitless access to joy

8 min readJan 28, 2024

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Appreciating Special Experiences When You Are Alone

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Done with the Pity and the Put-Downs: Single People Want Their Strengths Acknowledged

In 2023, my most popular blog posts were about the ways in which single people are flourishing

3 min readJan 1, 2024

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Done with the Pity and the Put-Downs: Single People Want Their Strengths Acknowledged

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5 Things I Wish I Knew When I First Started Writing about Single People

Writing about single people has been deeply fulfilling, but I had a lot to learn

4 min readNov 18, 2023

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5 Things I Wish I Knew When I First Started Writing about Single People

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Here’s Why It Is So Expensive to Be Single in the U.S.

. . . and here are the financially empowering advantages of living single

6 min readOct 29, 2023

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Here’s Why It Is So Expensive to Be Single in the U.S.

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How Couples End Up Ditching the People Who Were Once Their Friends

Why single people’s friendships may be especially fulfilling

5 min readOct 17, 2023

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How Couples End Up Ditching the People Who Were Once Their Friends

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Advocating for Single People

A case study in how it is done

12 min readSep 27, 2023

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Advocating for Single People

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Bella DePaulo

“America’s foremost thinker and writer on the single experience,” according to the Atlantic. SINGLE AT HEART book coming on Dec 5, 2023. www.belladepaulo.com

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