What We Really Know About Single Life
This page started out as a collection of critiques of studies of married vs. single people. I have now expanded it to include collections of writings on all sorts of…
What Celebrities, World Figures, and People in Politics and the Media Tell Us about Single Life
A reporter just asked me about celebrities and other people in the news. Do they have anything important to tell us about single life? I realized that over the years,…
Singles in Popular Culture: TV, Movies, Books, and Magazines
Single people are all over popular culture. Usually, they are portrayed in stereotypical ways. Occasionally, though, I am pleasantly surprised. Literature, opera, the arts — all the forms that are…
Finally, on Twitter! @belladepaulo
It took me forever, but I’m finally on Twitter! The photo you see is what I’m using on my profile page (as well as my actual photo). On Twitter, I’m…
Want to Join the Community of Single People?
All sorts of people get in touch with me, hoping that I can put them in touch with other single people who want to live their single lives fully (and…
Check Your Marital Privilege
[This article is co-authored – in alphabetical order – by Lisa Arnold, Rachel Buddeberg, Christina Campbell, and Bella DePaulo. We are cross-posting it on all of our blogs.] “White privilege”…
The Best of Single Life: A New Collection
I’ve just put together a collection of 65 of my writings on single life in a book called The Best of Single Life. I think these are some of my…
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…
Debunking the Myth that Married People Live Longer
Way too many people think that married people live longer. They think it is a fact. It is not. I have been debunking this for years, starting with Singled Out….