If you’re a happily single woman, I’d recommend keeping that to yourself. Not because the information itself is so very damning, but because there’s no good way to convey it—no safe way for those ...

In 2019, actress Emma Watson brought attention to singledom — not simply by saying that she is happily single but by naming herself as “self-partnered.” It not only acknowledges the fact that being ...

At different times and different places, single people—especially women—have been tagged with all sorts of disparaging labels. That continues even now. The term spinster, which some are trying to ...