This resonates so much. We were taught (in my very strict religious school) that families come in one size only, and the word spinster was still thrown around like the worst possible fate. I was so desperate in high school to always be someone's girlfriend, and this bled into my twenties. It wasn't until I started therapy that I was finally able to recognise the ways I had sacrificed my own personal development in my desperate quest to avoid being single. I would love young people to learn all the ways being single is empowering and enriching and whole.
This resonates so much. We were taught (in my very strict religious school) that families come in one size only, and the word spinster was still thrown around like the worst possible fate. I was so desperate in high school to always be someone's girlfriend, and this bled into my twenties. It wasn't until I started therapy that I was finally able to recognise the ways I had sacrificed my own personal development in my desperate quest to avoid being single. I would love young people to learn all the ways being single is empowering and enriching and whole.