![]() ![]() ![]() more of the same.” Armed with insights from psychoanalysts and Sex and the City (where “every character is subjected to humiliations related to being single”), she contends with the stigmas “uncoupled” individuals face, such as that their singleness means there’s “something wrong” with them. However, countless dates later, Lutkin concluded that “on the other side of trying. After confiding to her coupled friends at a dinner that she might not date anymore, their responses left her feeling “out of place.” At 32 years old and in a culture “built around partnership,” she writes, “the hardest part of being single wasn’t the quality of my life, it was really this lack of language to articulate the meaning of my own solitude.” Determined to resolve her inner conflict, she joined a gym and dove into dating apps. Essayist Lutkin debuts with a brilliant reframing of the cultural narrative around singledom with an impassioned defense of its pleasures. ![]()
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