If you're a woman in your 20s, being single may feel like an empowering lifestyle choice. Taking smug delight in the recent ...

She pointed out, “Rarely, if ever, do married women really allocate time and investment into their single friends' life ...

From going "boy sober" to "decentering men," discourse about young women rejecting the traditional path of marriage and motherhood has swept social media. As birth and marriage rates decline, more and ...

More than half of US women don't view marriage as an important part of a fulfilling life, and they find they're happier than ...

Women in the U.S. are saying goodbye to marriage and embracing a single life. According to the latest data available from the Pew Research Center in 2023, only 34% of single women are looking for a ...

After my second divorce, I naively believed I should “get back out there.” But then I realized that life was good on my own—I ...

OLD MAID. SPINSTER. CHILDLESS CAT LADY. For literally centuries now, everyone from gossipmongers to vice presidential candidates has slung dismissive sobriquets to describe the single woman experience ...

DePaulo is a leading expert on single life, and is the author of Single at Heart: The Power, Freedom, and Heart-Filling Joy of Single Life. She has been writing the “Living Single” blog for Psychology ...

Four years ago, my husband and I made an increasingly common choice: We hugged, apologized for our shortcomings and freed ...

A single woman has gone viral after sharing her take on why she thinks marriage makes women become "very self-centered." Posting to her 27,700 TikTok followers, Ashanti, 36, said that she thinks ...

I hear it from The New York Times, where Jean Garnett introduces me to the catchy term “heterofatalism” and laments the ways ...

Lovers of single life, it’s time to set yourselves free. Unshackle yourselves from those old, regressive stories that claim that single life is sad and lonely. Rise above those repressive notions that ...