Having a secret Single freak-out? Feeling the red, heart-shaped urgency intensify as the years roll on by? Oh hi! You\'re in the right place.
Are you in? *Spoiler: you\'re already whole.
Let\'s start the reverse brainwash, in order to locate - and luxuriate in - Single happiness.
She lifted the lid on the reasons behind the global Single revolution, explored the bizarre ways cultures single-shame, detached from \'all the good ones are gone!\' panic and debunked the myth that married people are much happier.
Catherine Gray took a whole year off dating to find Single satisfaction.
Feeling haunted by the terms \'spinster\' or \'confirmed bachelor\'.
Spending half our lives waiting for somebody-we-fancy to text us back.
Dating like it\'s a job.
That we\'re incomplete without an \'other half\'*, like a bisected panto pony.
Cue: Single sorrow.
But society, films, song lyrics and our parents are adamant that a happy ending has to be couple-shaped.
Many of us are choosing never to marry at all.
It\'s become the norm to remain solo until much later in life, given the average marriage ages of 35 (women) and 38 (men).
Over half of Brits aged 25-44 are now single.
Having a secret Single freak-out? Feeling the red, heart-shaped urgency intensify as the years roll on by? Oh hi! You\'re in the right place
