the high cost of being single

[hitchhiker]

https://www.vox.com/the-goods/22788620/single-living-alone-cost

The celebrated single life is, in truth, incredibly narrow. For women, you have to be 1) actively and successfully in search of partnership; 2) unspeakably wealthy and above scrutiny; and/or 3) a self-sacrificing mother. “Confirmed” bachelors can sometimes get a pass so long as they don’t move back in with their parents; so do the elderly, the widowed (but only for a brief window of time), and the very young. Other single and solo-living people are still stigmatized in various and overlapping ways, depending on their age, class, race, and sexual identity. We don’t call single or unmarried people spinsters, deviants, or social problems anymore, at least not explicitly. But that underlying hostility to single and solo-living people? It’s everywhere.

Comments

[pauamma]

Not living in the US and not a woman, so a large share of that article has no bearing on my situation, but "“Confirmed” bachelors can sometimes get a pass so long as they don’t move back in with their parents; so do the elderly, the widowed (but only for a brief window of time), and the very young." This. (For extra make-people-look-at-you-funny credit, check both "widowed" and "divorced" for marital status on a new-hire personnel form.)