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3. Sociability and the Single Woman.
“When I was in my 20s, a part of me wanted to feel normal by society’s
standards. I wanted to be married so that I didn’t feel odd. And that’s a
terrible reason.”
As a “relationship virgin”, I wonder whether I even want a relationship
anymore, or just feel like a weirdo for not being in one. Melissa describes
her current status as “willfully single”—she’s focusing on building other
meaningful relationships in her life. Sabrina’s single and looking, but has
also just bought a house with five friends; is that really any weirder or
riskier than getting married? We also talk about strategies for making new,
close friends when you’re past your twenties; planning way ahead, financially
and socially; and how being single isn’t the same as being alone.
Guests.
Sabrina Bowman is a 35-year-old
single woman who loves her bike, Kensington Market, running an environmental
nonprofit called GreenPAC, dance parties, doing
lunges, and delighting in the wonderful people of Toronto,
Melissa Brizuela grew up in the suburbs of Toronto and moved downtown
while she was an undergraduate student at Ryerson. She loves the challenges
and rewards of her day job in higher ed, but she's still trying to find her
"life's work". She loves to sew, but does her best creative work in the
kitchen.
Show Notes.
“I’m a relationship virgin: I’m 54 and have never had a
boyfriend”.
The book by a twentysomething homesteader that Melissa mentions is Made from
Scratch: Discovering the Pleasures of a Handmade
Life
by Jenna Woginrich.
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By Nadia Halim“When I was in my 20s, a part of me wanted to feel normal by society’s
standards. I wanted to be married so that I didn’t feel odd. And that’s a
terrible reason.”
As a “relationship virgin”, I wonder whether I even want a relationship
anymore, or just feel like a weirdo for not being in one. Melissa describes
her current status as “willfully single”—she’s focusing on building other
meaningful relationships in her life. Sabrina’s single and looking, but has
also just bought a house with five friends; is that really any weirder or
riskier than getting married? We also talk about strategies for making new,
close friends when you’re past your twenties; planning way ahead, financially
and socially; and how being single isn’t the same as being alone.
Guests.
Sabrina Bowman is a 35-year-old
single woman who loves her bike, Kensington Market, running an environmental
nonprofit called GreenPAC, dance parties, doing
lunges, and delighting in the wonderful people of Toronto,
Melissa Brizuela grew up in the suburbs of Toronto and moved downtown
while she was an undergraduate student at Ryerson. She loves the challenges
and rewards of her day job in higher ed, but she's still trying to find her
"life's work". She loves to sew, but does her best creative work in the
kitchen.
Show Notes.
“I’m a relationship virgin: I’m 54 and have never had a
boyfriend”.
The book by a twentysomething homesteader that Melissa mentions is Made from
Scratch: Discovering the Pleasures of a Handmade
Life
by Jenna Woginrich.
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