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In this week's episode of Spinsterhood Reimagined, I talk to New York State-based journalist and author, Sara Eckel. 

Sara has had an amazing career as a writer and author of the book ’It’s Not You: 27 (Wrong) Reasons You’re Single’. She has written for multiple publications including The Washington Post, The Guardian and Boston Globe Magazine. She has also written two essays for the New York Times’ ‘Modern Love’ column, one of which is still one of the most popular essays in the history of the column. 

In this conversation, Sara and I discuss her single years living in New York City, and how they allowed her to explore meditation, Buddhist philosophy and generally gave her a whole new way of looking at her life and the world. 

We also talk about what motivated her to write her brilliant book, which is all about the things people tell women about why they’re single - from too desperate, to too intimidating, to too picky - and why so many of those things seem to completely contradict each other.

Our conversation also includes musings on some of the assumptions that are made about single women, how curious we both find it when some women come out of one relationship and go straight into another, and the fact that she doesn’t feel any regret about not having children. 

Sara can be found on Instagram @saraaeckel. She can also be found on Twitter @saraeckel.

Link to Sara’s book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Its-Not-You-Reasons-Single/dp/0399162879

Link to Sara’s New York Times articles:
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/25/style/modern-love-sometimes-its-not-you-or-the-math.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/05/fashion/Modern-love-The-Hard-Won-Lessons-of-a-Solitary-Life.html?emc=edit_tnt_20140102&tntemail0=y

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