It’s My Golden Anniversary! Of Being Single

What I have done, haven’t done, and still want to do after 50 years of living single

Bella DePaulo
Fourth Wave
Published in
6 min readSep 12, 2021

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It’s my golden anniversary. I mark my single life as starting at the age of 18, and it has never ended and never will end. I never married, never even cohabited. That means that today, on my 68th birthday, I am celebrating 50 years of single life.

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Bella DePaulo
Fourth Wave

“America’s foremost thinker and writer on the single experience,” according to the Atlantic. SINGLE AT HEART book coming on Dec 5, 2023. www.belladepaulo.com