“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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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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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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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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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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What’s a singles activist doing on chemistry.com? Well, what do you think! No, I am not interested in becoming unsingle. I was trying to take the personality test developed by Helen Fisher – despite some misgivings I already had about …
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