Single women may still be marginalized or stigmatized even—some say especially—when they are happy about being single. In her book Singled Out, social psychologist Bella DePaulo calls this “the singles treatment”: “No matter how fabulously happy and successful you may be,” she writes,28 “you can still get the singles treatment. In fact, some people who dole out the treatment sometimes seem especially miffed by singles who are not whining about their singlehood or pining for coupledom.”
envy.
