Today’s Lifelong Singles Doing Better Than Yesteryear’s. What About Widowed People?

Do you know how old people are when they become widowed?

Bella DePaulo
Fourth Wave
Published in
4 min readFeb 8

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Photo by Simon Hurry on Unsplash

When I searched for a photo of a widow to use for this story, the picture you see at the top is one of the first that appeared. There was a time when a photo of a fairly old person would seem to me to be just the right…

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Bella DePaulo
Fourth Wave

“America’s foremost thinker and writer on the single experience,” according to the Atlantic. Author of “Singled Out.” Harvard PhD www.belladepaulo.com