The BIG debate: Is being single BETTER than being a couple?

Living your BEST life.  Does that mean staying single?  

Should the well worn phrase “happily ever after” be used for single people and THEIR lives?  

You might think so based on the movement by some academics, celebrities, influencers, and the public, who embrace the single life, also known as the “solo or single at heart movement.”  Many say life’s actually BETTER when you’re single compared to being coupled.   Is this true?  What’s the evidence behind this?  

Geoff MacDonald is a psychologist who says there are benefits to both:  being single or being partnered.  

But when you tally it up, which way of living comes out on top?  

INFO ON GUEST: 

Geoff MacDonald is a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto. He’s also a Fellow of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology and the Int’l Assoc. for Relationship Research:  https://www.psych.utoronto.ca/people/directories/all-faculty/geoff-macdonald

He runs the MacLab whose aim is to better understand wellbeing in singlehood:  https://www.macdonaldlab.ca/

On CBC TV’s The National -  2026 Relationship Goal:  Stay Single? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9XaQC7-i6Q

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