Your relationship status is a setting, not a score.

A fact about your current arrangements gets treated as a grade, largely because everyone around you treats it as one. Being with someone or not says very little about how well you are living, how loved you are, or what you are capable of. It does shape your week, and it is worth being honest with yourself about what you want. A ranking it is not.

When the status starts to feel like a verdict, look instead at whether you have people you can call and things you care about. Those are the numbers that move a life.