What ‘Living Single’ Readers Like Most: A 5-Year Report


  1.  ASEXUALS: Who are they and why are they important?
  2. Is it better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all?
  3. Children of single mothers: How do they really fare?
  4. Is it bad to notice discrimination?
  5. The American psyche: Tipping toward solitude?
  6. Are you single at heart?
  7. The ultimate threat to single people: You’ll die alone
  8. 10 myths about single people: Here are the first 4
  9. Keeping marriage alive with affairs, asexuality, polyamory, and living apart
  10. ‘So why have you never been married?’ A case study in accidental singlism
  11. World’s most revolting Facebook status updates
  12. Wedding porn doesn’t turn us on: Age at 1st marriage has never been higher
  13. Undateable: Guest post by Elliott Lewis
  14. Are the early years of single life the hardest? Part II: Approaching age 30
  15. Men and women who have always been single are doing fine
  16. Single, no children: Who’s your family?
  17. The last ‘why you are single’ list you will ever need
  18. Are monogamous relationships really better?
  19. Two scholars ask: What if marriage is bad for us?
  20. USA Today big new story on marriage peddles same old fallaces
  21. Americans just want to be single?
  22. It’s National Singles Week: Here are 14 reasons why we need it
  23. Solitude, Part 2: The benefits it brings, and the special strengths of the people who enjoy it
  24. 10 myths about single people: Here are numbers 5, 6, and 7
  25. 10 myths about single people: Here are the last 3
  26. How do you make friends when you are single?
  27. Getting married and getting sex (or not)

 #2

Off-Topic: Most Popular Posts about Lying and Detecting Lies

  1. Who lies?
  2. Do relationships need lies to survive?
  3. Friends and lovers: Is there a ‘knew it all along’ effect?
  4. Looks can kill – your better judgment

(Because I blog about deception relatively rarely, I was able to collect links to all the posts I wrote on the topic in one place: Here’s what I know about lying and detecting lies.)

#3

The Post that was the Biggest Loser

Far fewer than 1,000 people ever clicked on this post, making it the biggest loser by a lot!

I’m toasting Brits this week, too!

#4

Some Surprises, or, After All These Years, I Still Can’t Predict Which Posts Will Be the Most Popular

I always have a guess about how a post will do before I publish it. What continues to surprise me is how often I’m wrong, even after 5 years of doing this. What’s more, I’m wrong in both directions. For example, I did not expect big things from “Are Married People the True Victims of Singlism?” But it took off immediately, and even though it did not crack the top-27, it racked up thousands of page views, and several months later, it is still attracting readers.

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