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The Darker Side of Couplemania

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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Posted in Personal, Singles By Choice | Tagged couplemania, singlism, violence against women | 1 Reply

Micro-Singlism

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?

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

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?

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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Chemistry

Rachel's Musings Posted on October 27, 2013 by RachelDecember 16, 2013

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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Posted in Singles By Choice, Skeptical musings | Tagged couplemania, matrimania, singlism | 2 Replies

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