For as long as girls have floated on their daddies' shoes, the elusive Happily Ever After has been a perennial must-have. When should, or can, we learn that bliss is only tangentially connected to some swept-off-your-feet love?
A "slut" is what haters call a liberated person, and that's what I am. I'm liberated. And the most liberating truth I've learned in the past few years has been this: You don't need to be in a relationship to live your life romantically.
Some single people also just want to chill out and have healthy work life balance. You know, be human.
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.