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TIME Magazine Bashes Single People and Fawns All Over Couples. Again.

More single men? TIME says that’s “not a good sign.”

Bella DePaulo
8 min readOct 7, 2021
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Hey, single people, guess what? We have no future!

So says Time magazine, a publication with a history of telling us how awesome those married people are and how pitiful it is to be single.

“Having a Partner Suggests Having a Future”

The reporter doesn’t use the word pitiful, so let me show you a verbatim quote, where she is talking about couples:

“It’s not just that they only have to pay one rent or buy one fridge, say some sociologists who study marriage, it’s that having a partner suggests having a future.”

She doesn’t name any of those sociologists. It’s just what they supposedly say.

I’m staring at my computer screen wondering how to even deal with this ridiculous and insulting implication that being single suggests not having a future. I’m 68 and I just celebrated my Golden Anniversary of being single. I’m proud of what I have accomplished. I’m proud of what millions of single men and women have accomplished. Please, Time magazine, explain to me about this future I didn’t have. Tell all of us single people when our lives supposedly stopped.

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Bella DePaulo
Bella DePaulo

Written by Bella DePaulo

“America’s foremost thinker and writer on the single experience,” according to the Atlantic. SINGLE AT HEART book is a gold medal winner. www.belladepaulo.com

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