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As layoffs mount, portfolios shrink and headlines become gloomier, many singles may be finding the harsh reality of having no one to lean on during the economic crisis unbearable.

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I had been divorced for 14 years and had three children off on their own -- a daughter working in Europe, a son in graduate film school, and another daughter in college -- when a woman I met on a ski lift in Aspen offered to set me up with a psychoanalyst practicing in New York.

Lynne Lucas is taking herself off the meat market. Monique Brown is sick of having to look cute all the time. And Scott Hayes is searching for his inner child.

I have been dating Ned for about 3 years. We are in our mid-30s. I have one 6-year-old daughter from my first marriage, and he has 4 children from his marriage.