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Pop Culture Singlism

Rachels Gedankenkasten | Rachel's Musings Posted on January 2, 2017 by RachelJanuary 2, 2017

I’ve been watching a lot of movies over break. Mostly because I can stream them from the library, I picked movies that are available rather than necessarily selecting by interest alone. This gives an opportunity to look under the pop …
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The Darker Side of Couplemania

Rachels Gedankenkasten | Rachel's Musings Posted on December 24, 2015 by RachelMarch 27, 2016

“That is why self-justification is more powerful and more dangerous than the explicit lie. It allows people to convince themselves that what they did was the best thing they could have done. In fact, come to think of it, it …
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Micro-Singlism

Rachels Gedankenkasten | Rachel's Musings Posted on October 31, 2015 by RachelDecember 22, 2015

Two recent blog posts are coming together in my mind to form the idea of micro-singlism, the seemingly innocent forms of discrimination against singles that are all around us. Those messages that tell us we’re less than when we don’t …
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Couplemania in Therapy?

Rachels Gedankenkasten | Rachel's Musings Posted on October 20, 2015 by RachelDecember 22, 2015

After writing about the luxury of mental health, I kept asking myself: Why do I want counseling? While I had been in a coupled relationship recently, I had trouble with emotional regulation, especially regulating anger. Now that I was no …
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Letter to my 20-year-old self

Rachels Gedankenkasten | Rachel's Musings Posted on September 25, 2015 by RachelDecember 22, 2015

At the end of an article on HuffPo where a women now in her second marriage shares what she wished she had told herself on her first wedding day, is this invitation: Want to share what you’d tell yourself on …
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What Happened?

Rachels Gedankenkasten | Rachel's Musings Posted on August 29, 2015 by RachelDecember 22, 2015

You might’ve wondered what happened reading a line in my last post. Yes, I was in a coupled relationship over the past year or so, a non-traditional one trying out solo-poly (and my troubles had little, if anything, to do …
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