How to dump someone on Valentine’s Day – or any day – without being a jerk | Life and style | The Guardian

Last week, Merriam-Webster added more than a thousand words to the dictionary. Among them, “to ghost” was defined as abruptly cutting off all contact with someone by no longer accepting or responding to phone calls or messages. With Valentine’s Day approaching – a time of year some data analysts have found is actually a peak…

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Psychologists say single people are more fulfilled. I’m getting to understand why | Sara Benincasa | Opinion | The Guardian

There remains a pervasive notion that happiness can only truly come from finding a spouse, lest one rot of loneliness in some dusty attic. But a new study out of the University of California at Santa Barbara provides a very different view of singledom, one that this single woman finds enormously encouraging. In work presented…

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