“So, when are you getting married?”

Whether it's a well-meaning aunt, a nagging mother, your just-hitched best friend, or your inner voice, we’ve all experienced the marriage question and the awkward conversation that follows.

I Get It, I’m Single! is the book to help you realize that you don’t need to answer the marriage question. Being single in your 20s, 30s, and beyond is an entirely valid life choice, and is preferable to settling down with someone you don’t really love—or who doesn’t really respect or love you—before you’re ready to. This isn’t a book about insulting marriage or the decision to lead more traditional lives; instead, it’s about realizing that getting hitched when we’re barely out of high school or university is becoming an outdated concept that doesn’t fit with our modern world or lives as well as it used to, and you shouldn’t feel pressured into that role if you don’t want it!

Read on to:

Learn why the marriage question exists in the first place, and why it doesn’t matter anymore.

Discover exactly where this pressure to settle down is coming from, and the best ways to handle the different people in your life who are making you feel inferior for being single.

Realize how being single for longer benefits your growth, confidence, and life in the long run.

Learn to recognize when you’re in a relationship for the wrong reasons, or in other words, to please other people.

Put your “old maid” fears to rest once and for all.

Learn about some amazing single ladies who led crazy cool and impactful lives, then use this information to silence your doubters.

Learn how to shut down the haters, keep your mom’s questions at bay, and remind yourself that being single when you are young is only going to help you become the most badass version of yourself possible.

Kristina White