Surprise! Single Women Aren't All Career-Obsessed Workaholics
Some single people also just want to chill out and have healthy work life balance. You know, be human.
Some single people also just want to chill out and have healthy work life balance. You know, be human.
Anthonia Akitunde | Posted 05.23.2012
When mom or dad has a harder time getting around their homes, one begins to make plans: “Should she move in with us? Maybe we should look into nursi...
Posted 04.24.2012
By Pamela Redmond Satran When I was a kid, the only woman I knew who lived alone was my aunt Margie. Although Margie was nice enough in a peppermin...
Alexis Sclamberg | Posted 04.23.2012
Solitude can be nourishing and nurturing. It offers space for reflection -- the chance to hear your own voice against a world of chatter.
Daylle Deanna Schwartz | Posted 04.20.2012
About nine months into my solo living it hit me -- I was enjoying my life a lot more than I did before.
Craig Kanalley | Posted 04.11.2012
How do we combat feelings of loneliness? Some turn to technology, which is ever-connecting us. But sometimes that's not enough. And sometimes, technology can make us feel even more lonely. We may be connected online, but offline may be different.
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.
Kevin Hartnett | Posted 05.19.2012
It's this last little block of alone time that I enjoy the most: the day done, and a few quiet minutes to myself before lights out.
Jena Kingsley | Posted 05.08.2012
One day my (then) boyfriend asked if he could have a little piece of his own real estate in my apartment. "Maybe a drawer?" I think my heart stopped for a second. Not in a good way.
Posted 03.09.2012
A growing number of people live alone. In fact, single living is one of the most common types of "families" -- along with childless couples -- Ann Cur...
Laura Schocker | Posted 05.07.2012
Living alone gets a bad rap in our society. But before you let the stats keep you up in bed (alone) at night, consider this: With the right lifestyle and support network, there are actually some great health benefits to living alone.
Jessica Pearce Rotondi | Posted 04.29.2012
The fact that women are more social yet still choose to live alone indicates a need among women for a place to be alone (Note: Virginia Woolf made this argument in 1929 -- highly recommended.)
Eric Klinenberg | Posted 04.04.2012
Today, a surprisingly high number of people are choosing to go solo because it facilitates the pursuit of good things that are otherwise hard to come by: Control of one's own time and space. Freedom to do what one wants, when one wants to do it. Privacy. Anonymity. Autonomy.
By Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow (Click here for original article) Earlier this year, divorcee Dominique Browning published an essay in the New York Times ...
D.G. Fulford | Posted 12.02.2011
Eighty years ago, Virginia Woolf introduced her daring concept: A woman needs time to herself. It is 2011 now, many complicated generations later. How are we fulfilling that need amidst all the clamoring others?
Lorraine Devon Wilke | Posted 10.15.2011
I remember the moment I truly understood my mother, a woman I couldn't understand for the life of me ... I saw her loneliness that day. I saw it because, for the first time, I felt glimmers of it in my own life.
Susan Orlins | Posted 09.07.2011
There must be reasons people pair off into living spaces, but I can't remember what those reasons are.
Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 05.25.2011
QUESTION Dear Irene, I'm 63 years old, and housebound due to health and mobility problems. My family works so they can't come every day. I find myse...
Bella DePaulo | Posted 11.17.2011
Our perceptions of single people and their place in society have not caught up with the realities. How well do you know your single people? Take this quiz.
Yoani Sanchez | Posted 05.25.2011
Since I left home in Cuba, I have learned to value autonomy, to distrust the subsidies and all these "gifts" that they constantly throw in the faces of citizens.
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 05.25.2011
Who's in a mood to flirt and wonder? I mean, there's enough anxiety and uncertainty without having your heart broken on top of everything else.
Bella DePaulo | Posted 11.17.2011
I live in the most ordinary American household - I live alone. Knock on any door in the nation and you are more likely to find a household like mine t...
Melissa Jeltsen | Posted 05.23.2012