Questions Single Women Still Get Asked When They Buy or Build a House

Why are single people’s home preferences questioned when coupled people’s aren’t?

Bella DePaulo
Fourth Wave
Published in
6 min readAug 1, 2022

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When I wrote Singled Out many years ago, I described the exasperating presumptions that I and other single women encountered when we dared to look for a place to live that wasn’t just a studio or a 1-bedroom. At…

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Bella DePaulo
Fourth Wave

“America’s foremost thinker and writer on the single experience,” according to the Atlantic. SINGLE AT HEART book coming on Dec 5, 2023. www.belladepaulo.com