Singlehood during later life,"
Ashley E. Ermer and Jaclyn Elisa Keenoy of Montclair State University suggest that newly single people may become sensitized to singlism in a way that they had not been when they were married. “Married people often do not realize that they are perpetuating singlism until after they transition into singlehood after a marital loss,” they observed.
The social scientists pointed to research documenting “dyadic withdrawal,” academic jargon for what often happens when coupled relationships develop and the couple spends more and more time with each other and less time with the other people in their lives. When they do socialize with other people, I think those people are increasingly likely to be other couples , though I do not know of any systematic research documenting that.
People who have been single for many years are typically quite accustomed to these interpersonal dynamics. If their coupled friends and relatives think of coupledom as a special club into which they have gained entrance , then they may have demoted their single friends from dinners together to lunch, from including them as a matter of course to including them as a special favor.
The implications go beyond hurt feelings. As Ermer and Keenoy point out, getting marginalized by friends and relatives who become coupled is a loss of social support. The single people “may need to regroup their social networks after friends and family marry.” The single people who like being single and who have invested in their single lives, such as the
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