Here’s an interesting article from WebMD, which asks whether women are better off single – and if they are loving their blessedly single status. Some people say that marriage is no magic bullet for happiness, but medical studies reveal otherwise.
Married people are happier and healthier than single women.
“The pressure to marry is even greater than ever, says Bella M. DePaulo, PhD, social psychologist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and author of the book Singled Out.
It’s an old-fashioned message, that you’re better off if you find a man…It’s this idea that you can be single, have your big career and all your friends, but that’s not the route to happiness, it’s not deep or meaningful like marriage is. That’s ridiculous. The best friendships often last longer than marriages … you don’t have ridiculous expectations of your friends like you do a spouse.
It’s true that a lot of women are dreaming of finding Mr. Right and walking down the aisle – but I agree that it should not be the perfect measurement for happiness. If you’re perfectly happy with your blessedly single status – what’s there to complain about?
I’m single and I’m loving it!
Yeah, I agree with WebMD. As what we can observe from real marriages, we have seen so many broken families and end up with nothing or another marriage again.
One thing, it’s just a state of mind that you can never be happy if without Mr. Right beside you. You can be happy alone, doing more and more discovery and fullfill things that you have never done in your younger years. http://nylarej.wordpress.com
I’m single and 25 and not loving it so much anymore. I choose to remain single because I don’t do casual dating or casual sex like I did before in my late teens to early twenties. My point is being single is great……but to a certain level…………..one shouldn’t be single for too long. The main thing is once you have someone in your life, you have to work on the friendship as well as the relationship. Be the best of friends…………communicate clearly about what you both want out of life…………companionship……..and don’t have expectations of each other. If you can master that I think you will have a strong and lasting relationship…………and a solid marriage!
The new fairy tale,Princess Bubble is about this.