Those who believe in love may say that being committed is the best, however, being single gives you more advantages, which the person who already has company will surely need.
At the rate we are going, the expression “stay to dress saints” will soon disappear from the popular heritage. Singleness is no longer seen, or is seen less and less, as a failure. Although there are still more married than without a partner, between the rate at which divorces are going, and that life alone no longer looks so sad -Almost, on the contrary, many married people envy life without commitments-singleness is gaining admirers in many different fields.
Scientists have begun to study singles, their habits, psychology and aspirations, when until recently they paid no attention to them. «The idea was that everyone wants to get married, and at some point they will, so why bother studying singles?»says belle DePauloresearcher at University of Californiaand one of the pioneers in the defense of celibates.
Seen this way, the general belief about singles was that it was about those people who had either failed in their marriage or were waiting to get married. Or, reducing it to pop language, the eternal debate of Carrie in Sex and the City: With or Without Mr. Big? But not anymore. Fewer and fewer people are ashamed to say they’re single because being single doesn’t mean you’re incomplete.
According to DePaulo, the more singles are studied socially, the more advantages we will discover for celibacy.
-For example, we will learn about ourselves as INDEPENDENT INDIVIDUALS.
-We will begin to understand THE POSITIVE PARTS OF LONELINESS that now we do not enjoy only because of irrational fears and taxes. Have you ever tried going alone to the movies? It’s cheaper, more comfortable, you don’t have to fight with anyone about which movie to watch…
-In addition, it will be quite a SENTIMENTAL LESSON: it’s okay «Don’t put all your eggs in one emotional basket»as can often happen to married couples.
Companies of a different nature are also increasingly focused on the group of singles. The health ones, without going any further, have realized that the unpaired tend to take more and more care of themselves and, therefore, to invest more in products that help them in their healthy life. That life of superfoods and fitness that you combine with partying. But not that much.
It is a proven fact that singles drink more than married people, no surveys were needed to prove something obvious, but for a long time that has not meant that single men and women are involved in a cloud of parties and debauchery.
Hopefully the expression “staying around to dress saints” will disappear then. Above all, because of that sexist connotation that she has as a spinster. As in everything, women have to hear more inappropriate comments when someone admits to being single. If she doesn’t have a partner, it will be because she can’t find a man, if he doesn’t have…what envy!
But this, like everything else, is changing -although always more slowly than we would like- and single women, of whatever age, are a very precious client for the hospitality industry, beauty, tourism… If there is even a day of singleness!
It is even a politically powerful group: In the US, single women are the ones who will have the most influence in the upcoming elections. Will that help a married woman get elected president?
Taken from Glomor