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Bella Depaulo Ph.dPsychology Today |
Adults in the United States are staying home more. Is that a problem?
A snide remark accomplished what other more positive strategies never could.
First comes love, then comes marriage, then sexism?
People who choose to be alone for positive reasons experience many benefits.
In not having children, as in staying single, adults are following their hearts.
For many singles, single life is not a smaller life, it is a more expansive one.
The single at heart are embracing single life, not avoiding intimacy.
The number of adults who are not married, and never have been, is remarkable.
The capacity to be alone is an under-appreciated aspect of well-being.
Staying single after divorce or widowhood can feel like coming home to yourself.
People who live alone are very unlikely to be depressed.
Two kinds of people are in committed romantic relationships and single at heart.
They are disadvantaged by whole systems of inequality.