Three simple questions can help you correct any "mistakes" that you may be making in choosing the right people to date.
Melissa Jeltsen | Posted 05.23.2012
Some single people also just want to chill out and have healthy work life balance. You know, be human.
Role/Reboot | Posted 05.07.2012
Adaya Adler stayed in a loveless relationship far too long for fear of turning 30 as a single woman. But when she stopped trying to live up to her fam...
Lisa Arends | Posted 05.03.2012
I was with my husband for 16 years. Sixteen good years. Little did I know a tsunami was forming beneath the placid surface of our marriage.
The New Yorker | Posted 04.09.2012
As reliably as autumn brings Orion to the night sky, spring each year sends a curious constellation to the multiplex: a minor cluster of romantic come...
Lauren Jacobs | Posted 04.04.2012
For some reason -- perhaps the impending marriages of three of my close friends -- I feel the desire, and even the need, to say this: I am truly happy as a single person.
Craig Tomashoff | Posted 05.14.2012
I realize most divorced guys who hadn't been with anyone in six years would react differently. They'd sleep with anyone with a pulse, and even that's negotiable. Yet I was secretly happy nothing happened. But why?
Bella DePaulo | Posted 05.07.2012
So those are my two choices? Either I'm providing for my family or I'm out to boost my ego, my status, and my self-image? Touré, there are around 100 million adults who are not married, and that's just counting the ones in the U.S.
Erin Joy Henry | Posted 04.12.2012
This Valentine wasn't for sale, so I drove away with half of a meatball in my belly and annoyed that I had taken the time to even apply mascara.
Juliet Jeske | Posted 04.10.2012
Valentine's day is a holiday dreaded by some and cherished by others. When you are newly divorced, Valentine's day is just another glaring reminder that you are now flying solo.
Posted 12.15.2011
Having high dating standards is getting harder and harder these days. But what's a modern woman supposed to do? Settle? Compromise? Learn to live wit...
Deborah Gaines | Posted 02.12.2012
My friend Eric recently told me about the stream of women--average age 55--who have been sharing his bed since his divorce. "I've never had so many one-night stands in my life," he said wonderingly.
Sophie Keller | Posted 02.04.2012
ANYWHERE. ANYTIME. That is where you can meet your life partner, and that is when.
www.high50.com | Posted 11.21.2011
I had to look twice at the attractive blonde driving past me in a vintage Merc. It was only when she gave me a big smile and stopped to chat that I re...
The Atlantic | Posted 12.11.2011
IN 2001, WHEN I was 28, I broke up with my boyfriend. Allan and I had been together for three years, and there was no good reason to end things. He wa...
CNN | Jessica Ravitz | Posted 11.17.2011
By Jessica Ravitz CNN Tracy McMillan has gotten under my single-status skin. I'm not sure how it took nearly a week for her Huffington Post column, ...
Lea Lane | Posted 05.25.2011
I was alone for many years, and one thing about travel that drove me nuts was that if I went on a cruise by myself I'd have to pay just about the sam...
David Wygant | Posted 05.25.2011
So here you are a week close to Valentines Day newly singled and the ink barely dry on the divorce papers.
Marnie Nir | Posted 11.17.2011
Most single people are unaware that their inability to find love has nothing to do with a dearth of potential partners, but with their inability to look at themselves.
Bella DePaulo | Posted 11.17.2011
Time magazine calls marriage a 'luxury yacht.' Remember what happened on the last cruise ship? The cover of Time magazine asks, in big bold letters,...
Bella DePaulo | Posted 11.17.2011
Coming this Sunday to the New York Times Magazine (already available online here) is an article by Tara Parker-Pope titled, "Is marriage good for your...
Bella DePaulo | Posted 11.17.2011
Once upon a time, a reporter for a major magazine declared, in all seriousness, that women should just get married already - even if it means settling...
Lea Lane | Posted 11.17.2011
I'm alone because life doesn't always wind up the way you expect it to, and it wound up this way for me, and I roll with it. I'm alone. I'm a solo lady. Alone, but not lonely.
Lea Lane | Posted 11.17.2011
How about a tribute to independents who bear the burden of higher per-capita taxes, single supplements, awful blind dates and endless questions about our happiness?
Charlie Maffei | Posted 05.31.2012