A few years ago I was having a conversation with a co-worker who, at the time, was 32 years old, single, and desperately wanted to get married and have children. She was an educated, successful, attractive woman who had been supporting herself in New York City since she graduated from college. Basically, she mentioned how [...]

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One of my best friends from college got engaged last year. I’m very happy for him because his fiancée is a highly intelligent, successful and attractive woman. So, where is this column going today? Am I going to write about the fact that all of my women friends have been married for years? Or they’re [...]

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Although I am still young and most would envy my ability to function immaculately on 2 hours of sleep and 5 aspirin, I have actively avoided the partying lifestyle for pretty much my whole life. I don’t know what it is about it that has always simply repulsed me: maybe the sweaty, over-scented, under sexed [...]

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I was chatting to a male friend the other day and he stated that the reason so many of us beautiful, successful, intelligent women are single are because we are too picky. “Most of you ladies nowadays have lists and you say you know what you want and then start to measure every guy against [...]

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One night stands are not something that floats everyone’s boats but there are an increasing number of women that are choosing to have no frills sex but finding that they get a lot of flack from the guys they sleep with or proposition. Now let’s be real here ladies – There is many a woman [...]

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Whether you’re single or attached, here at Baggage Reclaim we don’t believe that it’s a day that should have you getting your knickers in a twist, because people shouldn’t invest so much emotion and energy in a commercial day that seems to be built on profiting from insecurity and putting relationships under immense pressure. Here [...]

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People are fond of asking stupid questions, but as a single person you become fodder for oodles of stupidity because for some reason your life is seen as being less than that of someone who is attached. I think that when they get beyond the lack of comprehension and the tentacles of fear that clutch [...]

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Relationships, the vital stepping-stones on our journeys to self-actualisation, are so often taken for granted. The word ‘relationship’ carries hidden meanings and although most of us associate it with love, feelings, sex, whatever, the truth is that this word carries much more weight than any of us give it credit for. A relationship doesn’t need [...]

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Once again the holiday season is upon us, which, for the majority of people, means spending time with family. For those of us who are single these holidays can be utterly cringe-worthy.
Married and coupled relatives of all ages and generations assume that if one is single, one cannot be happy and must be in great [...]

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I’ll tell you, point blank, that when I’m comparing women to date, having children is a check mark against them. That doesn’t mean that I haven’t dated single mothers but they have to have something very special about them to push past that situation. Basically since I don’t have children and have been very responsible [...]

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