We all have to make decisions in life and sometimes, those decisions are going to affect others but they may also just affect us. It all boils down to it being a personal matter, but sometimes those choices take people by surprise.
That is especially true when you are a celebrity as big as Emma Watson. She is well known because of the part that she played in the Harry Potter movies, but now she has revealed her relationship status and it has many people wondering.
We know that there are a lot of labels that have been floating around recently and it seems as if a new designation is been coined on a weekly basis. Emma Watson may just have come up with a new one, as she said that she is ‘self-partnered.’
This revelation has taken many by surprise, mostly because people didn’t understand what being self-partnered was when she said it back in 2019. She fortunately gave a little light on the subject, saying:
“I never believed the whole ‘I’m happy single’ spiel. I was like, ‘This is totally spiel.’ It took me a long time, but I’m very happy [being single]. I call it being self-partnered.”
Watson would on to say that she does date but she doesn’t date one specific person. She continued: “Dating apps are not on the cards for me.
“I’m very lucky in the sense that because I went to university and because I’ve done these other things outside of film, my friends are really good at setting me up. Really good.
“And what’s really nice is some of my best friends are people I got set up on a date with and it didn’t work out.”
There are other people who are also now using the term ‘self partnered’. This includes a psychologist based in California, Carla Marie Manly, who is very happy with the concept.
She said: “A self-partnered person would feel whole and fulfilled within the self and does not feel compelled to seek fulfillment through having another person as a partner.
“To be truly self-partnered, one must often invest a great deal of time and energy on personal development.”
Just because a person is self-partnered does not mean that they are never going to get married or don’t consider going out on a date. It just means that they are committed to themselves first.
The concept may not be new, but the name for it sure is interesting.
