Many couples feel that marriage is not necessary for happiness and long-term commitment. Fifteen women give us their ideas about what marriage means and why they don’t need it to be happy in their relationships. “Both of us have had bad marriages and divorces. When we got together, it wasn’t supposed to be a forever […]
This month marks not only my 34th birthday (tomorrow!), but also the third anniversary of my move from Chicago to New York to move in with my now husband. I wasn’t sure at the time if I’d be getting my own place and just staying with him temporarily, or even if the relationship would work out. We’d […]
In a new study, researchers talked to a whopping 32 never-married women over the age of 30 and discovered that some of them feel a social stigma because of their single status. For example, they may feel unwanted pressure at weddings during the bouquet toss, or insecure when “parents and siblings remark about their singlehood […]
Type “single and” into the search bar and Google will suggest a bunch of phrases that don’t come close to capturing the nuances of the lived single experience. I should know – I’ve been rolling solo for a long ass time and have never thought of my romantic life in such simplistic terms as “single and happy,” “single and lonely,” “single and […]
