Does Being Single Make You Feel Lonely, Or Just Embarrassed?

Shani Silver
7 min readOct 6, 2020

Single shame is a real thing. It is also bullsh*t.

Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash

Why do we hate this? Why do we hate being single? I mean the collective “we,” the broader single set, the collective currently swiping into infinity, hiring matchmakers, and hunting for a partner no matter the emotional or mental toll required. We get ignored, we get dick pics, we get insulted, we get ghosted…

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