'That's not for me': All the Single Ladies pays unmarried women their due

Now women can just gift busybodies nagging about marriage Rebecca Traister’s new book

I can’t begin to count the number of conversations I’ve had in my adult life about my lack of enthusiasm to marry. Though I’ve often (perhaps too often, by my mother’s estimation) become entangled in multi-year relationships with men that eventually reached their expiration dates, the subject of getting wed has, since my early 20s, been a non-starter – both for my significant others while things were good and for my nosy relatives, regardless of my relationship status.

For years, I have had to marshal arguments – emotional, intellectual, economic, sociological – to explain to everyone from those who truly love me to those who barely know me how I’ve managed to spend my life in proximity to the wedding industrial complex and the institutionalised relationships it spawns and somehow, through either logical thought or some missing piece of my girlish heart, thought that it was not for me.

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