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Single? Stop sweating it and start celebrating it. You’re no longer the Bridget Jones-inspired I’m-going-to-die-miserable-and-alone minority. In fact, you’re emerging as something of a boss, outnumbering your married peers in Canada and the U.S., and enjoying some newly discovered health and wellness perks, too. Single adults are more active, more socially connected, leaner, and more likely to grow and change than their coupled-up counterparts. (Take that, Tinder.)
And yet despite the increasing numbers of fascinating, attractive single women that command mainstream attention (Rihanna! Lady Gaga!), lonely single-girl stereotypes infuriatingly persist. Blame what sociologists call “cultural lag” for the disconnect between fact and fiction when it comes to flying solo, says Bella DePaulo, a California-based social psychologist and the author of Singled Out: How Singles Are Stereotyped, Stigmatized, and Ignored and Still Live Happily Ever After. “Our perceptions of single people have not kept up with the big changes in their place in society and how they are living their lives,” she explains
