Unattached: Empowering Essays on Singlehood

allowed stories of how people met to broaden our minds? What if these stories served as reminders of the infinite number of ways people meet and fall in love?

whatever comes your way, you know you can walk away.

Men enter relationships as if they’re working at a job they hate, reaping as many benefits as possible

Although I returned from Mexico still single, I did come back with a newfound love: for myself, and for those around me.

because I lived alone, had money to spend and always demanded what I wanted.

while doing the absolute least.

the amount of time we’ll be single. But we’re allowed to recognise that those two things aren’t correlated at all. Relationships happen, love happens. We can’t control, plan or cause these things with all of our toiling away in the dating space.

Maybe it is during these times spent single, facing the crashing waves of self-reflection, that we are free to be at our most authentic and electrified. And to become a bigger, better version of ourselves to take into a relationship again, if we so choose.

a better partner, too. Women reported more growth than men did.