Sam Meuels and Lynn Williams host Snacks, the only Women's Soccer podcast hosted by active players. Listen to Stacks on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. The Good Stuff is a weekly show that features great guests from the world of Women's Soccer. We're joined by some amazing guests who share the lessons they've learned in their lives.
Being single has never been more common, with more people being single than ever before in history. And yet, we still experience a great degree of social and internal stigma, and even shame, around our relationship status. From the comments of family or friends saying that "you'll find someone soon", to the movies where marriage and partnership is the happy ending, sometimes we feel the need to settle in order to be happy or live up to societies expectations. In today's episode we explore the psychology behind this - from gender schema theory, to the scarcity effect, media psychology, identity fusion, and the hidden benefits of our single years. We also discuss whether it's wrong to want a relationship and whether we need to be fully healed before dating again? The answer is, it's complicated. Listen now!
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