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It's Singles Week - Someone Tell Newsweek There Are 100 Million of Us and We Vote

Bella DePaulo | Posted 09.22.2008 | Media

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Bella DePaulo

This week, September 21-27, is National Singles Week. If you think it is unnecessary to do a bit of consciousness-raising about people who are single ...

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Like Your Time Alone? Then This Post is For You

Bella DePaulo | Posted 08.21.2008 | Living

Read More: Creativity, Households, Aging, Divorce, Relationships, Loner, Daphne Merkin, School Shooters, Serial Murderers, Singles, Imagination, Atlantic Magazine, Work From Home, Happiness, Sociability, Isolation, Solitude, Anneli Rufus, American Psyche, Loneliness, Ostracism, Kids With Rooms of Their Own, Small Talk, Living Independently, Pseudo-Loners, Living Alone, Singled Out, Jonathan Rauch, Introvert, Demographics, Boredom, Living News
Bella DePaulo

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...

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True or False: Married People Healthiest, but Singles Catching Up

Bella DePaulo | Posted 08.16.2008 | Living

Read More: Methodological Issues, Singled Out, Single Men, Widowhood, Divorce, Matrimania, Marriage Movement, Bogus Media Reports, Media, Singles, Income, Stress, Soul Mate, Marriage, Singlism, Health, Loss Hypothesis, Crisis, Marital Mythology, Washington Post, Longitudinal Research, Black Singles, Marital Status, Single Women, Living News
Bella DePaulo

Even allowing for the approach that makes marriage look better than it really is, the differences in health between the currently-married and the always-single are tiny.

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BBC Claims Singles Are at Risk for Alzheimer's; I Think the BBC is Losing Its Mind

Bella DePaulo | Posted 08.01.2008 | Media

Read More: Elderly, Marriage, Dementia, Singled Out, Friends, Singlism, Divorce, Bbc, Health, Matrimania, Alzheimer's, Intellectual Stimulation, Singles, Media, Widows, Social Contact, Media News
Bella DePaulo

With no reliable differences in the rate of Alzheimer's between the married and the single people, the BBC should not have heralded the "findings" in a headline.

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Single Boomers: Marketing Myths and Mistakes

Bella DePaulo | Posted 06.13.2008 | Business

Read More: “Sex and the City, Single Boomer Women, Single Men, Friends, Sales, Golden Girls, Relationships, Housing, Children, Matrimania, Marital Status, Single Boomers, ” Empty Nesters, Travel, Singles, Myths, Friendship, Boomers, Singlism, Advertising, Spending, Desperate Housewives, Marketing, Consumers, Singled Out, Real Estate, Demographics, Finances, Single Person Households, Business News
Bella DePaulo

Advertising is matrimaniacal, and 55% single people said that they were not in a committed relationship and that they were not looking for one.

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Full-Page "Women Count" Ad for Hillary Excludes 28 Million Women

Bella DePaulo | Posted 05.24.2008 | Media

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Bella DePaulo

The ad funded by "Women Count" counts every woman -- as long as she is married. I wonder, are single women also invisible to Hillary?

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Just in Time for Wedding Season: Love and Romance Break Free of their Contemporary Moorings

Bella DePaulo | Posted 05.11.2008 | Living

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Social Justice, Friends, Weddings, Meaning, Partners, Soulmate Mythology, Lyrics, Matrimania, Sabbatical, Singles, Passion, Music, Intimacy, Newsweek, Louisa May Alcott, John Mayer, Relatives, Marriage, Singlism, Social History, Solitude, Juilliard, Paul Erdos, Nature, Ted Sorensen, Scientific Discovery, New York Times, Body Language, Singled Out, Love, Living News
Bella DePaulo

A few weeks ago, Ted Sorensen - husband, father, and renowned speechwriter for President John F. Kennedy - was interviewed by Deborah Solomon of the N...

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Anyone Want a Few Million More Votes?

Bella DePaulo | Posted 05.05.2008 | Politics

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Bella DePaulo

Single voters play favorites, their favorites are Democrats, and there are about 92 million of them eligible to vote.

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Boston Globe Locates America's Most Available Genitals

236.com | Posted 04.05.2008 | Living

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The Boston Globe asks, "Which decision has a bigger impact on someone's life: finding the right job, or finding the right significant other?" For read...

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Marriage Does Not Lower Blood Pressure -- Reading Matrimaniacal Media Accounts Raises It

Bella DePaulo | Posted 03.22.2008 | Media

Read More: Abc, Singled Out, Longevity, Friends, Stereotyping, Smoking, Matrimania, Media Myths, Time Magazine, Drinking, Singles, Happiness, Msnbc, Marriage, Cnn, Ap, Singlism, Health, Blood Pressure, Media News
Bella DePaulo

If getting married really did make people healthier, and did so in a way that no other close relationship or meaningful life experiences could approximate, that would be a story worth reporting.

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To the Author of "Marry Him!": An Apology and an Offer

Bella DePaulo | Posted 02.27.2008 | Living

Read More: Friendship, Marriage, Loneliness, Singled Out, Singlism, Backlash, Atlantic, Singles, Lori Gottlieb, Myths, Feminism, Advice, Single Women, Marry Him, Living News
Bella DePaulo

To Lori Gottlieb, author of "Marry Him!": Clearly, you were upset by my reaction to your Atlantic piece. I apologize for the distress I caused you. ...

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Who Says It's Settling?

Stephanie Losee and Helaine Olen | Posted 02.26.2008 | Living

Read More: The Atlantic Monthly, Office Romance, Office Mate, Lori Gottlieb, Marriage and Settling, Marriage, Relationships, Feminist, Singles, Feminism, Single Women, Living News
Stephanie Losee and Helaine Olen

Most people who end up married to non-stars don't view themselves as settling, even if that is what it looks like to Atlantic writer Lori Gottlieb.

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Divorce and the Environment: A View from the Year 2016

Bella DePaulo | Posted 02.25.2008 | Living

Read More: Single-Person Households, Housing Market, Singled Out, Divorce, Economy, Wedding Industry, MSU Divorce Study, Matrimania, Mitt Romney, Immigration, 2008 Presidential Election, Singles, Elvis Wedding Chapel, Mortgage Crisis, Singlism, Homelessness, Harvard University, The Green Life, Michigan State University Divorce Study, The Giving Life, Dallas Television Show, War of the Roses, Divorce Hurts the Environment, Divorce Global Warming, Divorce and the Environment, Family, Living News
Bella DePaulo

A global trend of soaring divorce rates has created more households with fewer people, that, in turn, take up more space and gobble up more energy and...

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The Case Against Quick-Fix Marriage

Anna Monardo | Posted 02.20.2008 | Living

Read More: Single Motherhood, Marriage, Singles, Single Mothers, Relationships, Marriage and Settling, Living News
Anna Monardo

Why does the media continue to showcase banter about how women can, and should, manipulate themselves into marriage?

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"Marry Him!": Atlantic Magazine Back-of-the-Book Backlash Porn

Bella DePaulo | Posted 02.17.2008 | Living

Read More: Caitlin Flanagan, Singled Out, Aging, Atlantic, Backlash, Single Mothers, Singles, Myths, Feminism, Advice, Happiness, Friendship, History, Marriage, Cnn, Loneliness, Dan Quayle, Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, Jon Stewart, Bridget Jones, Sex, Lori Gottlieb, Love, Single Women, Living News
Bella DePaulo

Lori Gottlieb, writing in the Atlantic magazine, has one word for single women of any age: Settle! Settle, she exhorts us, even for the guy who smell...

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Valentine's Day Advice - No, Not THAT Kind!

Bella DePaulo | Posted 02.04.2008 | Living

Read More: Holidays, Pets, Friends, Celebrations, Singles, Valentine's Day, Advice, Break-Up, Couples, Living News
Bella DePaulo

I don't see why there is so much advice offered to single people about Valentine's Day. They are not the ones having a hard time. Recently, ...

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A Tale of Two New Years, and Six Tips for Soloing Through!

Lea Lane | Posted 12.21.2007 | Living

Read More: Tips for Single People, New Year's Eve, Holiday Season, Singles, Single Women, Advice for Singles, Tips for Holiday Season, Preparing for the Holiday Season, Living News
Lea Lane

New Year's can go either way. And if this one is not looking to be your happiest, a few solutions -- some simple, some extreme -- which have worked for me.

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The Holiday Gift Guide

Sherri Langburt | Posted 12.13.2007 | Living

Read More: Singles, Holiday Season, Gift Giving, Holiday Gifts, Christmas, Living News
Sherri Langburt

The holidays should be magical for everyone, so in the spirit of fairness, I have assembled a Just for One Gift guide for you to pass along to friends and family!

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It's Not Who You Know, It's To Whom You're Willing to Talk

Sherri Langburt | Posted 11.19.2007 | Living

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Sherri Langburt

As children our parents teach us never to talk to strangers. This life lesson in safety does not translate well as we get older.

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Contrary to AP Report, Single Parents Do Not Murder Their Children and Bury Them in Cement

Bella DePaulo | Posted 11.18.2007 | Living

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Bella DePaulo

Children in single-parent households are obviously in homes without both biological parents, and their family structures are nontraditional, so they must be the ones at risk for getting pummeled to death, right?

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I'm a Values Voter, Too

Bella DePaulo | Posted 11.08.2007 | Politics

Read More: Elderly, Relationships, Children, Care, Safety, Mexico, Pat Robertson, Iraq, Singles, Peace, Human Dignity, 2008 Presidential Election, Same-Sex Marriage, Friendship, Religion, Marriage, Education, Rudy Giuliani, Environment, Living Wage, Sudan, Afghanistan, Security, Justice, Values Voters, Health Care, Voting, Politics News
Bella DePaulo

The endorsement of Rudy Giuliani by Pat Robertson is cause for brow-furrowing. Who are these "values voters?"

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Are More Single Professionals Falling in Love with Work? 5 Tips to End the Laborious Affair

Sherri Langburt | Posted 11.06.2007 | Business

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Sherri Langburt

The politics that come with fraternizing that can be detrimental to the single person's career.

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The Single Diner's Dilemma: What to Do When it's Time To Settle Up

Sherri Langburt | Posted 10.30.2007 | Living

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Sherri Langburt

Ever wonder why lightweights get penalized when pulling out their purses at the end of a good meal even if they abstained from drinking, dessert and so much more?

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