FEMALE, SINGLE AND HAPPY

Female, mid-thirties and single: for many people, that sounds like a fateful, tragic diagnosis. Yet most single women are content with their lives. So why does no one believe them? They’re often faced with questions like, “How’s your love life? Have you tried online dating?” Well-meant, of course, but the subtext is, “What’s wrong with you?”

The far more important issue is: why is long-term monogamy is still viewed as the best life choice despite the sobering story told by divorce statistics? Here, Gunda Windmüller argues passionately that we should reassess our mental picture of oh-so-pitiable single women while also offering them some much-needed encouragement:

Single life can be damn good!

 

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  • Publisher: Rowohlt Polaris
  • Release: 12.03.2019
  • ISBN: 978-3-499-63413-0
  • 288 Pages
  • Author: Gunda Windmüller

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Gunda Windmüller, born in 1980, is a PhD in literary studies and has worked as a journalist for publications including Zeit Online and Welt kompakt . She co-hosted and produced the podcast "Fix&Vierzig" with Katja Berlin. Her first non-fiction book, Weiblich, ledig, glücklich – sucht nicht , was published in 2019 by Rowohlt. She completed her training as a yoga teacher and has been teaching yoga in Berlin since 2021.