Hello there podcast listeners and welcome back to the Love Life podcast with your host

Silly old Stephen Hussey how are you?

Settlin get cozy. We've got a good one for you today because I'm going to talk about being

single and maybe you've noticed that the title song which is hotly requested from people who send

in emails. The title song for this podcast is called Team Single and I want to discuss

one of my super popular articles on the blog and that's not my words. This one got a lot of

comments, a lot of feedback. People seem to really be into it so I want to talk about it here

and the article title is don't get into a relationship before you read this. So I'm calling this

don't get into a relationship before you listen to this. Breckets or how to be single.

So I'm going to do what I've done on a few of these podcasts and talk through my article

and maybe in spurs with a little commentary here and there but I feel this is something that

has to be addressed. I think the state of the way singledum is perceived by society, by the wider

world, by people's friends and family can put an immense pressure on people and it's time to correct

that balance. So I'm going to begin from the beginning of the article. Let's start.

Single, dating, friends with benefits, coupled, people like to tell us that one state is desirable

over another and yet 10 years of working people in their relationships has taught me that it's

possible to feel wildly fulfilled or totally miserable in just about any state between flying solo

and being in a committed relationship. But that's not what we're told. The cultural story tells us

your life will finally make total sense when you meet the right person. Actually it's even worse

than that. It says, get a relationship or else your life won't have meaning. Yikes.

This is why being single can be extra tricky, especially for women who face far greater pressure

to prove their worth by quote, locking down a steady relationship by around age 30.

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