Why do we teach people, women especially, that if you don’t have somebody, you are nobody? What is it about being single that is so harmful? Is it that we are afraid of being alone?

Is this taught because that is what the parents were taught? Have they even tried to be alone? Is it automatic to teach that you have to find a spouse? Are they even conscious of this push?

Is there something dangerous to society about people being alone? It certainly isn’t that we need more population growth through people pairing off.

Or is there some basic issue in society in general with being alone? Being alone conveys independence. Is that what is terrifying to the culture at large?

Why are there so many books for women about how to find the perfect man, especially after 30? There aren’t books for men like this. Please note there is no “modern groom” magazine. The focus is on the woman finding the man, not the other way around.

The focus isn’t on the woman learning how to take care of herself – it teaches her that she has to be with someone else in order to be complete. This seems basically demeaning.

Why are there so many “romance” books for women, yet nothing of the sort for men? Both aren’t learning the same script.