5 Scientifically Proven Reasons It's Better To Be Single

Crying into a pint of ice cream alone on Valentine's Day? Talking through your problems with your cat? Taking your mom to your office holiday party? Hardly. These are absurd stereotypes of singledom — not the reality. "[Does] getting married result in lasting improvements to mental health, physical health, or any of the other supposed goodies?" asks Bella DePaulo, a psychologist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the author of Singled Out. "The answer... is no." Marriage and p...