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6 Women Open Up About the Reality of Being Single in Your 40s. Earlier this year, author Rebecca Traister made waves with her newest book, All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation , which highlighted all the reasons why more women than ever before are choosing to be single. RELATED: Single Ladies Are Shutting Down Stigmas—So Why Are They Still Losing Married Friends?
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“[Women] are living sexually-liberated lives, socially deep and complicated lives, Rebecca says in an interview for Uninterrupted . "[But] too often, we still have a very antiquated idea that marriage is the validating metric for them. Anybody who is living outside of marriage or in advance of it is made to feel somehow incomplete.” According to recent data by the Pew Research Center, lots of people are living outside of marriage. In fact, only half of adults over the age of 18 are married—and four in 10 Americans say they believe marriage is becoming obsolete all together. But while these numbers point to a shifting change in gender norms, as Rebecca points out, there's still that lingering pressure. We asked six women in their forties to share how being single impacts their lives. Here's what they said. RELATED: People Who Look for Love This Way Tend to Have Low Self-Esteem, Say Mean Scientists. “When I was younger, in my twenties, I always thought I’d be washed up and lonely if I didn’t marry at 40. That’s what a lot of people told me as I turned 30, and then 35, and then 40. But honestly, being single at this age is a game changer. I’ve been able to move mountains in my career, date lots of different types of men, and build my financial portfolio. I’m glad I didn’t get married early and then [wind up] divorced in my thirties. I never met the right person, so I never settled.
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