Psychology Today

The protagonist of John Updike’s Rabbit series, Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom, wants to run from marriage, but finds nowhere to run to.

Single life isn’t marriage minus the spouse. It is a whole different experience, meaningful in ways that are rarely acknowledged.

Americans now spend more years of their adult lives unmarried than married. The number of singles is growing around the world. So why do we still glorify marriage?

Studies have followed married people for many years. The results are not what Time magazine claims.

In 1986, an infamous Newsweek story claimed that 40-yr old single women were more likely to be killed by a terrorist than to ever marry. How Newsweek even got its retraction wrong.

For the first time ever, more young adults are living with their parents than with a spouse or partner. One of the most interesting reasons for this is rarely mentioned.

What's wrong with believing that happiness comes from within?

Beyond the plus-one: I'm also in favor of the minus-one invitation.

Now that young adults are staying single so much longer, they are coming up with innovative ways of living and putting their own stamp on more traditional arrangements

Families have been changing dramatically since the 1950s, in ways we never saw coming and in radical ways we still aren't recognizing.

One of the most important life tasks is finding or creating the lifespaces that allow us to live our best lives.

Americans are creating family in an unprecedented number of ways, and single people are taking the lead.

If only the first 6 invited experts contributed, it would have been 1 of the most insightful and respectful set of articles about single life ever to appear in a major publication

What would you like to know about single people or single life? You will probably find answers here.