Haven’t found ‘the one’? You’ll be ok.

KERA's Think

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Society & Culture, 071003, Kera, Think, Krysboyd

4.8 • 861 Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Being single surrounded by couples can be rough – especially on Valentine’s Day – but there’s plenty to celebrate about singledom. Meghan Keane, founder and managing producer for NPR’s Life Kit, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss her journey from dreading her singlehood to finding joy in it – and her advice to not put big life plans on hold as you look for love. Her book is “Party of One: Be Your Own Best Life Partner.”

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0:00.0	Hi, it's Lacey Healy.
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0:49.9	Our culture loves love. Starting in childhood, we're surrounded by happily ever after fairy tales, and as adults, we find ourselves awash in rom-coms and hashtag relationship goals.
1:02.1	There is nothing wrong with hoping you might someday find your person. But if you're holding off on happiness until that happens, you might be missing out on all the great things life has to offer right now.
1:13.2	From KERA in Dallas, this is think. I'm Chris Boyd.
1:17.6	Megan Kane is professionally successful. She is founder and managing producer for NPR's
1:22.3	Life Kit. She's got lots of interests and plenty of good friendships. She hasn't spent a lot of her adult life
1:28.1	in committed romantic relationships. And for a while, as many of her friends started coupling up
1:33.5	and getting married, she worried there must be something wrong with her. But then she started thinking
1:38.1	maybe the only problem with her life was that she was waiting for it to start when she found a
1:42.5	partner. She decided to reframe her status as a single person and discover there is plenty of joy available to her right in the moment. Her book about this journey is called Party of One, Be Your Own Best Life Partner. Megan, welcome to think. Thanks for having me.
1:59.0	So assuming you are not in some Jane Austen style situation where you need somebody to save your family's estate, how does the cultural pressure to get yourself coupled up once and for all manifest itself for you?
2:12.3	For me, I thought I was above it, actually.
2:15.2	You know, I'm a millennial. I'm 35.
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