You are holding in your hands a book that will destroy all myths about loneliness and lonely people. Drawing on decades of scientific research and real-life stories from the practice of psychotherapists, Bella DePaulo incredibly wittily reveals that almost everything you have heard about the benefits of marriage is utter nonsense, which, if it once claimed to be true, is now incredibly outdated .Many people have heard phrases since childhood such as: “once you get married, you’ll understand”, “behind your husband is like behind a stone wall”, “a woman is the keeper of the family hearth”, “a man without a wife is like a fish without an ocean” - all this only helped to strengthen we think that being alone is shameful and wrong. And it’s even more strange to want to be alone.