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…
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…
How We Live Now: Here Are Some Innovative 21st Century Living Arrangements
My most extensive writing on how we live now is in the book by the same name, How We Live Now: Redefining Home and Family in the 21st Century. That…
Singles in the Workplace: Issues, Values, and Action
Questions about singles in the workplace are coming up more and more often. That’s a good thing. For too long, conversations about the workplace, and about achieving “balance,” have focused…
New Book Project Is On!
Last January was when I first decided, with lots of input from my agent, on the theme of my new book project. It is about the many creative ways that…
Single People Are Caring, Connected, Attached, and Unselfish
Among the many myths I busted in Singled Out were the ones that single people are isolated and self-centered. Research on those myths has continued to proliferate, and the results…