It Is Happening – Please Share Your Thoughts!
What’s happening? Two things – National Singles Week (Sunday September 18 – Saturday September 24) and the new website that will aggregate feeds from enlightened singles blogs, provide resources, and…
Singles Who Want to Stay Single: Where Do We Find Social Support?
A reader who is single and not looking to become unsingle asked me a simple question that, to me, does not seem to have a simple answer: Where can he…
Multiplying Our Influence, Expanding Our Reach: Update on New Singles Site
In late July, I shared my thoughts here about creating a new website aggregating voices and resources for singles interested in living their single lives rather than becoming unsingle. Since…
Friends Step In: What Can Happen When You Are Single and Seriously Ill
Today on the Today show website, there is a story, “Single and seriously ill: Care circles fill in for family.” There you can read about “Lucy’s Angels,” the 49 friends…
Ousted by Gossip? Divorced Women Called ‘Unleashed Dogs’
A reader sent me this story (below) and agreed to let me share it with you as long as I omitted identifying information. Any suggestions?
Bogus Claim that Marrieds Win: Can You Help Explain the Cheater Technique?
I need your help. I’ve been trying for years to explain what’s wrong with the cheater technique. That’s the one where researchers compare all single people (whether they want to…
A Story about Marriage that Is Not Matrimaniacal – Let’s Celebrate!
Have you read my latest post over at Living Single about the article in the Chicago Tribune quoting all sorts of people who are not matrimaniacs?
‘But He’s So Nice!’ Practitioners of Singlism Have their Defenders
“He’s all puppies and rainbows.” “She’s so so nice!” “He’s a reasonable person.” It is getting to be a pattern. When someone is called out for practicing singlism, someone else…
For Your Smug-Marrieds File
A local paper published an interview of a woman whose online company has become very successful. She runs the company with her husband. Asked if she keeps her private time…