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

Bella DePaulo
Fourth Wave
Published in
8 min readJan 28, 2024

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From the gallery on Bella DePaulo’s website

You know that look you sometimes get when you tell someone you are single? The “poor thing” gaze? It comes from a belief that single life is a lesser life. For people who are single at heart, exactly the opposite…

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Bella DePaulo
Fourth Wave

“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