Singles Week 2010 Blog Crawl Starts Today!
The second annual Singles Week blog crawl starts today. The brainchild of our friends at Single Women Rule, a blog crawl is an online version of a pub crawl or…
Single Girl Folk Song, with Thanks to Psyngle
If you enjoy the comments posted to this blog and to Living Single as much as I do, you probably already realize how many wonderful contributions come from Psyngle. But…
On Not Growing Old Alone
You know that scare story about how if you are single, you will grow old alone? My fear is that I WON’T grow old alone! I don’t mean that I…
Next Up: Emotional Independence
In a recent post over at Living Single, I reviewed Rachel Moran’s argument that second-wave feminism had forgotten the single woman. The focus, instead, was largely on the superwoman who…
Many Voices, One Question: Should the Government Privilege Married People?
[This post is co-authored by Bella Depaulo and Rachel Buddeberg.] Same-sex marriage is advocated as a basic human right. We applaud any expansion of human rights. Yet, as we’ve watched…
Dexter Director Wins an Emmy, and You Can Win a Book
[UPDATE: Thanks to Random.org, the 3 winners of the Dexter book have now been selected. Look at the 3 comments posted by me on 9/07/2010 to see if you are…
Coupling Wasn’t Always So Intensive: Notes from a Social Historian
Over at my Living Single blog at Psychology Today, I asked this question: The rise of the couple and demise of all the rest: How did this happen? In the…
What Would Happen If Government Got Out of the Marriage Business? Guest Post by Christian Miller
Bella’s Introduction: Responding to a post I wrote on Aug 7, Get government out of the marriage business?, Christian Miller sent me some detailed and thoughtful documents describing his own…
Should We Blame Erik Erikson for the Myth of the Isolated Single Person?
Even though I’ve been a research psychologist for my entire adult life, I have to admit that I had forgotten something significant about Erik Erikson and his stage theory. I…