{{Short description|None}} You, you're single, and this will be corrected in 12 seconds but i need to say this, now go get a girlfriend
{{short description|Person not in a marital, romantic or sexual relationship}}
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In legal definitions for [[Interpersonal relationship|interpersonal status]], a '''single person''' refers to a individual who is not in committed relationships, or is not part of a [[civil union]].<ref name="auto2">{{Citation|last=Koropeckyj-Cox|first=Tanya|title=Singlehood|date=2009|url=http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/CX3273000341/GVRL?u=nclivewfuy&sid=GVRL&xid=6ad7f2a7|encyclopaedia=Encyclopedia of the Life Course and Human Development|volume=3|pages=370–375|editor-last=Carr|editor-first=Deborah|series=Later Life|publisher=Macmillan Reference USA|language=en|access-date=2019-04-23}}</ref> In common usage, the term ''single'' is often used to refer to someone who is not involved in either any type of [[Intimate relationship|sexual relationship]], [[romantic relationship]], including long-term [[dating]], [[engagement]], [[marriage]], or someone who is "single by choice".<ref name="Kislev 2019">{{cite book |last=Kislev|first=Elyakim |title=Happy Singlehood: The Rising Acceptance and Celebration of Solo Living |publisher=University of California Press |year=2019 |url=https://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520299146}}</ref> Single people may participate in dating and other activities to find a short-term partner or [[spouse]].
