Unpartnered: Building A Full, Single Life

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Unpartnered: Building A Full, Single Life

By Paige Perez,

Anita Rao

Published June 2, 2023 at 5:30 AM EDT

An illustration split into four separate illustrations. In the top-left corner is a woman sitting alone on a park bench, reading serenely. She has long red hair and her legs and feet are resting on the park bench. On the top right is a co-ed group of folks with their arms around one another facing three crosses. The red-haired woman is among them, and we can only see their backs. In the lower left-hand corner is three people playing mini-golf, with the red-haired woman in the middle. In the lower righthand corner, a group of people featuring the red-haired woman are eating at a restaurant. The word "Unpartnered" is in the upper righthand corner.

A growing number of American adults have the same feeling about romantic partnerships: They don鈥檛 want one. Anita meets three people who have chosen singlehood: a scholar who examines the double standard of relationship status, a single mother of two by choice and a man shedding toxic masculinity to build a deliberately single life.

Meet the guests:

, associate professor at the University of Maryland and author of 鈥�,鈥� brings us into her research on single, Black Americans and some of the larger structural forces that shape an individual's choice to be single 鈥� and how that work has informed her own embrace of singlehood
, a single mother by choice and the host and creator of the "" podcast and blog, shares her journey to becoming a parent and the key relationships that have supported her along the way
, author of "" Substack newsletter, explains what he has put into place to create a fulfilling life for himself as a deliberately single man

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Paige Perez

Paige Perez (she/her) is a Caribbean-American audio and photojournalist born and raised in Brooklyn, NY. Her work covering sexual and reproductive health, the climate crisis, and racial inequity is published in The Guardian, HuffPost Voices, and Bronx Times. Paige is a recent graduate of the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, where she concentrated in health/science reporting and specialized in audio and video. When she is not reporting and producing, she is probably visiting local art spaces or making images.

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Anita Rao

Anita Rao is an award-winning journalist, host, creator, and executive editor of "Embodied," a weekly radio show and podcast about sex, relationships & health.

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