Being Single Is Now An Unaffordable Luxury | How Money Works

Oct 2, 2025

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Being Single Is Now An Unaffordable Luxury

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Being single is becoming an unaffordable luxury for a lot of people.

The cost of everything is exploding right now and without a partner to share the financial burden with, single people are financially falling behind their friends who are in consistent relationships.

Being able to combine incomes and share expenses is only where the subtle advantages start as well. Multiple studies by world renowned institutes in multiple countries have found that traditional married couples even earn more on average than people who are single.

Interestingly the reasons the researchers found for this pay gap were causal, which means that it wasn’t just that richer people were more likely to get married, it means that being married on average gives people key benefits that lets them earn more money during their career.

The gap between couples and singles is only growing and to make matters worse the cost of dating is ALSO increasing at an alarming rate.

This means that the financial benefits of long-term relationships are now, more than ever, disproportionately going to go to those people who are financially stable enough to be able to play the dating game.

We must also remember that there are lots of people who want to remain single, and even more worryingly, there are lots of people that are in relationships that would like to get out of them if only they could afford to.

So it’s time to learn How Money Works to find out how being single became an expensive luxury and why traditional couples on average end up so far ahead.

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