22 Side Effects of Taking a One-Year Hiatus from Dating

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There’s this misconstrued stigma that single life is a sad life. That it’s a lonely journey that people, usually women, are desperately trying to claw their way out of.

So instead of taking the time we need to cope after a break-up or really understand who we are as an individual, we jump back into relationships. And I would know — this was my life since I was sixteen…