They neither have a partner nor are they expected. Why more and more women love being single?

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Overcome the stigma of single, sad and failed women, it is the modern world that insists on making us get out of single life as soon as possible and boycotts it in every conceivable way.

Increasingly refined applications to flirt, 2 for 1 even in the soup and

as the only perfect ending to close an argument in fiction.

More than six and a half million Spanish women live without a relationship,

according to the latest data from the National Institute of Statistics (INE).

Men too: 7,578,000 are single.

And when it is not forced, they admit that they are happy with their singleness.

learn to do things alone

Their happiness does not force them to go permanently with a smile on, but it is indicative that this state is losing prejudices that until now could lead to wrong decisions or to falling in love despite incompatibilities or irreconcilable differences.

warns Luis García Ruiz, motivational leader and relationship expert.

What remains, according to this professional, is to finish learning to live with oneself.

Go to the movies alone, have a coffee, feel good without company.

Only once a person enjoys her solitude and is full and satisfied with herself and her life, will she be able to build a happier life.

It will be as a couple or alone, but they will not perceive singleness as a tragedy or the couple as a lifesaver that will cover their shortcomings.

"It is true -says García Ruiz- that feeling love gives us great personal growth, but

Better alone than...

And if we still need excuses, the expert gives us several.

The first is to understand singleness as a focus to grow and

"It allows us to focus more on our needs. If we don't get to know each other, we run the risk of falling into relationships of attachment and dependency."

On the other hand, this premeditated solitude facilitates the fulfillment of personal goals and the real knowledge of what enriches the soul and what we like.

A few years ago, Paul Dolan, Professor of Behavioral Sciences at the London School of Economics, suggested that, if one were to draw a prototype of a

It was the main conclusion that he drew after analyzing the data from the so-called Weather Survey, highly controversial in the United States.

In her comparison of notes and documents, she observed that single women who have not been mothers have higher well-being rates and a

The same conclusion was reached by a team of researchers from the University of Calgary, in Canada, who also emphasized absolute control over that well-being and the decisions they make throughout their lives.

Question of age?

It is a palpable attitude in millennials, whose preferences are to travel and expand their circle of friends with their mobile applications.

They receive singleness as a blessing and want no more attachment than the FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out) philosophy, which comes to mean fear of missing out on something.

In addition, it should be noted that

No snoring, no noise and no sudden movements of the person next to you.

This is at least what a study by The Better Sleep Council deduced.

However, there is always the option of sleeping in separate beds.

The fact is that the trend towards singleness seems unstoppable and, in 15 years, one in three households in Spain will be owned by someone who lives alone, according to the INE.

At the moment,

and 53% are inhabited by a woman.

Even to fulfill the desire for motherhood, singleness gains strength.

Solo in vitro fertilization treatments have doubled in the last five years, according to the Spanish Fertility Society.

Single mothers are no longer an exception and claim their rights as another model of family.

The couple keeps pulling

Even so, the most common typology is and will continue to be the couple.

Marriage continues to be important to much of the population, regardless of how much happiness or misery it will bring, Dolan found in his research.

Kate Bolick, author of 'Spinster: Creating a Life of Her Own', believes that there is a kind of fulfilled self-prophecy, a narrative about

that marks our behavior until it fits.

"We grow up knowing that we must become wives," she says.

In fact, lack of love and difficulty pairing up is still a reason for consultation in therapeutic spaces.

It is difficult to get rid of that idea that popular culture offers that there is no good ending if it is not by way of romance, but a less solitary, more enriching and much less stereotyped singleness is being imposed.

"In the end - concludes García Ruiz -

Happiness is not found, it is built. And we have the potential to choose how to live it".

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