Living Single

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by Bella DePaulo

Top 12 Living Single Posts Since Last Year’s National Singles Week

Myth-busting posts are the most popular at Living Single

Published on September 18, 2011 by Bella DePaulo, Ph.D. in Living Single

Today marks the first day of Unmarried and Single Americans Week (September 18-24) or "National Singles Week" for short. In one of the posts I'll be writing this week, I will share some of the most important things I've learned from studying singles and single life all these years. I'm also putting together a complementary post based on the collective wisdom from all of you. Details are here if you'd like to participate and haven't already let me know.

In the meantime, I thought I'd list the most popular Living Single posts since National Singles Week last year. (It is always the third full week of September.)

1. 10 myths about single people: Here are the first 4

2. Keeping marriage alive with affairs, asexuality, polyamory, and living apart

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3. 10 myths about single people: Here are numbers 5, 6, and 7

4. 10 myths about single people: Here are the last 3

5. Americans just want to be single?

6. Americans' cheating hearts: Results from decades of research

7. Sweet solitude, Part 1: Two meanings of alone

8. 'Why are you single?' meets 'Why are you married?'

9. Solitude, Part 2: The benefits it brings and the special strengths of the people who enjoy it

10. Adolescent romance: Do you think it is linked to sexism?

11. What do singles spend their money on?

12. Extraversion and the single person

Occasionally, I post about topics other than single life (usually something related to deception). I didn't include those in the above list. Here are the three most popular off-topic posts since late September, 2010.

1. Who lies?

2. Friends and lovers: Is there a "knew it all along" effect?

3. Looks can kill - your better judgment

Finally, I'm happy to let you know that Singled Out is now available as a Kindle book. (Of course, you can still get it in paperback as well.) My other books have always been available in both print and electronic formats.

Happy Singles Week, everyone!

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Bella DePaulo, Ph.D., is author of Singled Out: How Singles Are Stereotyped, Stigmatized, and Ignored, and Still Live Happily Ever After. She is a visiting professor at UC Santa Barbara.

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