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This question originally appeared on Quora. By an anonymous user of Quora I have been single in Palo Alto for the last 2 years. For me, being singl...
'You have your freedom,' my mom says to me, as if she's describing a place she's always wanted to visit but knows she'll probably never see.
To my awesome friends, who are all in relationships, and are very concerned about my single lifestyle: I love you guys, I do. I understand that you'r...
While many single, 40-year old women may be perfectly content with the lives they live, when they step out in the world, there seems to be a constant reminder that they are "failing."
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.
Here are five signs you know you don't want children.
Solitude can be nourishing and nurturing. It offers space for reflection -- the chance to hear your own voice against a world of chatter.
You just signed the papers, and now you're officially divorced. You want to completely forget about that failed relationship, so what better way than to get into a new one. Right? Wrong.
The moments when we feel like we need to make the case that that other road is wrong are probably the moments when we need to look at ourselves.
Maybe your pickiness, your deal breakers, are really just walls you're putting up to keep you from getting hurt.
Perhaps I am overreacting, but I don't understand why people give single women with cats that "oh, poor you" look, yet when they come across single men with pets -- whether they have cats, dogs, turtles, whatever -- they say: "How cute; he is so caring and sensitive."
I love men. Some of them. Sometimes. Just not the ones I've been out with recently.
So you just went through a divorce. You look around the house and everything is different. Your partner's stuff is gone. You feel relieved, and yet, at times, still sad.
"It's biology," he said bluntly. "Everyone knows women have fewer eggs as they age."
Our society is filled with the messages that at a certain age, singles are peculiar and perplexing, marriage is the preferred state of being, and once you get married, everything will be perfect. The fallout from these perceptions hits single women particularly hard
