Being the Change We Single People Want to See: Guest Post by Jaclyn Geller

Being the Change We Single People Want to See: Guest Post by Jaclyn Geller

by | Oct 25, 2021 | ALL THINGS SINGLE, historical perspectives, Matrimania, Perspectives on Single Life, singles rights and advocacy, Singlism and matrimania

Photo by David Justice

Jaclyn Geller is guest-posting here to share her bold (and sometimes hilarious) Call to Action for single people who are tired of the pervasive unfairness that advantages married people and deeply disadvantages anyone who is not officially married. Geller, an English professor and author of Here Comes the Bride: Women, Weddings, and the Marriage Mystique, has long been at the cutting edge of thinking on matters of fairness for people who are not married. I have been hosting her guest posts since 2009.

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It’s a Pandemic and These Single People Have Been Doing Fine

It’s a Pandemic and These Single People Have Been Doing Fine

by | Apr 18, 2021 | ALL THINGS SINGLE, blogs about single life, pandemic



Heard that all single people have been crushed by the pandemic? Don’t believe it.

It seems like every major publication has featured some article pitying those single people whose lives have been ruined during the pandemic. I’m not unsympathetic – some single people really have been having a hard time, and their stories deserve to be told.

What I object to, vociferously, is the implication that their stories represent the only ways that single people experience the pandemic. In December 2020, I started inviting single people to share their pandemic experiences with me. Dozens have done so. I wrote about them in three articles, described below. I thank them again for sharing their stories.

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One of My Blogs Is Ending; Here Are the Others that Are Continuing

by | Aug 28, 2020 | ALL THINGS SINGLE, blogs about single life

I was invited to blog at Psych Central in 2011 and I have been writing the “Single at Heart” blog there ever since. I recently learned that Psych Central has been sold to Healthline, and Healthline has decided to kill all the blogs. Sometime after October 2020, everything I’ve written there will be taken offline. That’s about 1,000 posts.

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Gender Differences in Living Single, Marrying, Divorcing, Remarrying, Bereavement, and Living Arrangements

by | Aug 3, 2020 | ALL THINGS SINGLE, gender differences

Is it a his and hers world when it comes to marrying, living single, living alone, or living apart from a romantic partner? What about initiating divorce or getting married more than once? We now know, sometimes from studies of more than 100 nations, and sometimes from more than a century of data, that there are gender differences in all of these matters.

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The Benefits of Being Single – for Single People and for Society

by | Aug 2, 2020 | ALL THINGS SINGLE

What’s so great about being single? What does it mean for single people, for families, communities, and society that the number of single people has been growing and growing for decades? Contrary to stereotypes, single life can be deeply fulfilling, and single people contribute to the strength and durability of our interpersonal ties and societies in ways that are finally getting recognized.

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