If You Are Fortunate Enough to Have Time to Yourself Over the Holidays…
Spending holidays by yourself can be quite wonderful. Yes, even the ones that are supposed to be all about togetherness, such as Thanksgiving and Christmas and New Year’s Eve.
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129 Reasons to Be Happy You Are Happily Single
Previously, I shared that list of “129 ways to get a husband” that has gone viral on social media. To me, it amounted to 129 reminders of how happy I…
6 Polite Reasons for the Rise of the Engagement Photo Shoot – and 1 Irreverent One
Engagement photos are not what they used to be. Couples don’t just go to a studio, smile for the camera, and send the photo to their local newspaper. They don’t…
How Likely Is It that You Will Marry If You Have Never Been Married?
In one of the most notorious stories every published about single women, Newsweek claimed that 40-year-old women who had never married were “more likely to get killed by a terrorist”…
Single Parents Facing their Fears and Courting Courage: Guest Post by Psychotherapist Amy Carpenter
[Bella’s intro. In this guest post, Amy Carpenter offers two things I value highly: an affirming view of single parents and the perspective of a psychotherapist who recognizes people’s strengths,…
Did Headlines about the Limo Crash Suggest the Lives of the Newlyweds Were More Valuable than Everyone Else’s?
[This note is an update to this blog post: When I first published this, several people said that the lives of all of the victims matter equally and all are…