I’ve been thinking a lot about what “being single” actually means today.

In this episode, I talk about why single is still weirdly associated with failure (especially for women), and how social media and rom-coms convinced us that love is the final level of adulthood.

This is an episode about learning to see singlehood as a phase of life… not a problem to solve.

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