Much as I love to make fun of people in the media (or anywhere else) for getting it wrong about singles, I relish it even more when they get it right. And when the source that gets it right is a highly influential one, all the better.
Today is one of those "hats off" days. Leanne Italie of the Associated Press wrote a story that starts by noting that "not all older single ladies want a ring on it." That opening, in and of itself, is a giant step forward. It challenges one of the most stubborn myths about single people - that what they all want, more than anything else, is to become unsingle.
Continue reading the AP story and you will find this statement about women who have always been single:
"They have other messages: We're not all sad. We're not all divorced, unlucky in love or unlovable. We're not all gay (and even if we were, have we not evolved as a culture, even just a little, to stop making that assumption? Don't answer that.)
