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In a recent post over at Living Single, I reviewed Rachel Moran’s argument that second-wave feminism had forgotten the single woman. The focus, instead, was largely on the superwoman who…
In a recent post over at Living Single, I reviewed Rachel Moran’s argument that second-wave feminism had forgotten the single woman. The focus, instead, was largely on the superwoman who…
[This post is co-authored by Bella Depaulo and Rachel Buddeberg.] Same-sex marriage is advocated as a basic human right. We applaud any expansion of human rights. Yet, as we’ve watched…
Over at my Living Single blog at Psychology Today, I asked this question: The rise of the couple and demise of all the rest: How did this happen? In the…
Bella’s Introduction: Responding to a post I wrote on Aug 7, Get government out of the marriage business?, Christian Miller sent me some detailed and thoughtful documents describing his own…
Even though I’ve been a research psychologist for my entire adult life, I have to admit that I had forgotten something significant about Erik Erikson and his stage theory. I…
In the comments section of this post over at Living Single, one of the people commenting voiced the myth that I spent an entire chapter of Singled Out debunking. I…
I bet some of you have already seen this video, How to Be Alone, a video poem by Canadian singer-songwriter Tanya Davis. It already has nearly a million views on…
“They say any fool can get married but it takes a devilish clever woman to remain an old maid.” Renowned author and life-long single woman Stella Miles Franklin put those…
A CNN relationships columnist told the story of coming home from work after a bad day, and telling her boyfriend that it was nothing, just a work matter, when he…