I Never Guessed This Place Would Be Good for Singles
There is a question that comes up now and then when I’m blogging about singles issues: What kinds of events or places work well for single people, especially single people…
Getting Married and Getting More Money
I have spent a lot of time and effort debunking myths about marriage – for example, if you get married, you will be lastingly happier and healthier, live longer, have…
Getting Married and (Not) Getting Sex
If you get married, will you get more sex and better sex? So far as I know, a methodologically persuasive study has never been done. That would involve following people…
Getting Married and (Not) Getting Healthy: What Decades of Research Really Shows
The assumption that if you get married, you will get healthier is so much a part of our conventional wisdom that it is rarely challenged. Back when I was just…
How to Fend Against the Insults in Those ‘Why Are You Single’ Lists
There are a lot of “why are you single” lists popping up these days. I have mostly stopped clicking on the links. Maybe some of them are fine. Back when…
Clicks for Causes, Amazon Associates, and a Tiny Bit of Easy Income
https://www.amazon.com/Singlism-What-Why-Matters-Stop/dp/0615486789/?tag=wwwbelladepau-20 The brief version of this post: I’m an Amazon Associate and I make a tiny bit of money every time someone buys something on Amazon after clicking one of…
The Single Person’s Guide to a Great and Happy Retirement: Guest Post by Blair Thomas
As a person completely enjoying the freedom of being single, retirement sounds like a blast. A little planning should go into it, so that the party that is coming down…
Single Men Are Too Often Marginalized, But Not – I Hope – by Me
Recently, a reader asked: “Is there, or will there, ever be anything for single men? Why is there so much about single women but hardly anything for single men?” I…
What Does a Cohousing Community Look Like?
Over at my Living Single blog at Psychology Today, I wrote a post about my recent visit to the Bellingham cohousing community, and along the way, described the notion of…