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Why Singleness Feels Like Exile

I'm the only one in my friend group who isn't married with kids and I feel increasingly invisible at gatherings like my single life doesn't count as a real life.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

When society equates partnership with completion, choosing or accepting solitude requires defending the wholeness of an uncommon path.

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