Dear Dr. Buckingham, I am a 36-year-old, single female and I deal with what I think a lot of successful black women are dealing with - the idea that we have to date down. In other words, settle for less than what we desire in a man. I have been living in the D.C. area since graduating from Howard University. I am from Alabama and have a southern girl mentality. I share that … [Read more...]
It’s Hard Being Single; the Sad Truth Experts Always Want to Ignore
Being single is hard. That's what one blogger, Emma Lindsay, shared in a deeply moving, soul-baring piece that is now breaking the Internet. Single ladies everywhere put their hands up—not to declare that a man needed to put a ring on it—but to bear witness to the pain of doing life alone. Women especially resonated with Lindsay's discovery that the myth of … [Read more...]