UK Couples Want Better Treatment of Singles
Readers have been alerting me to the new UK study that calculated the extra money it costs to live solo compared to living as a couple. I’ll get to that topic in a later post. As is my custom, I …...
View ArticleThe Added Price of Single Life?
A recent report suggests that the added cost of living solo, compared to living with a spouse or partner, is $388,059 over the course of a lifetime. The study was conducted in the UK. The economic...
View ArticleSweating the Small Stuff: Micro-Inequities and Micro-Affirmations
In my writing about singles, I’ve often pointed to the big ways that singles are targets of discrimination. Singles are discriminated against in the housing market, in ways that are blatant and yet not...
View ArticleThe Marriage Penalty That Has Nothing to Do with Taxes
If you’ve read Singled Out, you know my take on the so-called marriage penalty in taxes – it is actually a bonus. Single people are the one who get penalized. A law review article comes to the same...
View ArticleThe Billboard that Just Won’t Go Away
Recently, my friend and colleague Wendy Morris sent me the picture of this billboard. (In case the words are hard to see, it says, “Married people earn more money.”) Wendy is a terrific singles...
View ArticleSINGLISM Is Published!
“All Things Single” readers, I’m blogging to you first. My new book, Singlism: What It Is, Why It Matterse, and How to Stop It – written together with 28 other contributors – is now available. You can...
View ArticleIs Marriage a Risk to Your Credit Rating? Guest Post by Rajiv Garg
[Bella’s intro: Rajiv told me this story by email and I asked him if I could share it here. Thanks, Rajiv, for agreeing. ] Guest Post by Rajiv Garg I was having lunch the other day at a restaurant in...
View ArticleGetting Married and Getting More Money
I have spent a lot of time and effort debunking myths about marriage – for example, if you get married, you will be lastingly happier and healthier, live longer, have more and better sex, more...
View ArticleThe Billboard that Just Won’t Go Away
Recently, my friend and colleague Wendy Morris sent me the picture of this billboard. (In case the words are hard to see, it says, “Married people earn more money.”) Wendy is a terrific singles...
View ArticleSINGLISM Is Published!
“All Things Single” readers, I’m blogging to you first. My new book, Singlism: What It Is, Why It Matterse, and How to Stop It – written together with 28 other contributors – is now available. You can...
View ArticleIs Marriage a Risk to Your Credit Rating? Guest Post by Rajiv Garg
[Bella’s intro: Rajiv told me this story by email and I asked him if I could share it here. Thanks, Rajiv, for agreeing. ] Guest Post by Rajiv Garg I was having lunch the other day at a restaurant in...
View ArticleGetting Married and Getting More Money
I have spent a lot of time and effort debunking myths about marriage – for example, if you get married, you will be lastingly happier and healthier, live longer, have more and better sex, more...
View ArticleUK Couples Want Better Treatment of Singles
Readers have been alerting me to the new UK study that calculated the extra money it costs to live solo compared to living as a couple. I’ll get to that topic in a later post. As is my custom, I went...
View ArticleThe Added Price of Single Life?
A recent report suggests that the added cost of living solo, compared to living with a spouse or partner, is $388,059 over the course of a lifetime. The study was conducted in the UK. The economic...
View ArticleSweating the Small Stuff: Micro-Inequities and Micro-Affirmations
In my writing about singles, I’ve often pointed to the big ways that singles are targets of discrimination. Singles are discriminated against in the housing market, in ways that are blatant and yet not...
View ArticleThe Marriage Penalty That Has Nothing to Do with Taxes
If you’ve read Singled Out, you know my take on the so-called marriage penalty in taxes – it is actually a bonus. Single people are the one who get penalized. A law review article comes to the same...
View ArticleLifelong Single People: Here’s What We Know
The number of single people has been growing for more than a half-century. Of all Americans who are unmarried, the biggest proportion of them, by far, are people who have never been married. Yet not...
View ArticleFairness for Single People: New Initiative for Calling Out Unfair and Fair...
Unmarried Equality members have probably noticed lots of ways in which single people are not treated fairly by businesses and other groups and organizations. Let’s do more than just rolling our eyes or...
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