Goffman's analysis of stigma management recently has been re-examined by scholars who focus on the ways in which actors not only manage but also resist stigmatization. This article represents a similar effort. Building on existing literature and interviews with 28 British middle-class respondents, we explore how single people who are stigmatized and marginalized in a culture that celebrates family and marriage resist cultural devaluation. While we acknowledge singles' reliance on strategies aimed to control social interactions, our primary focus is on their deployment of discursive "tools" to construct and present themselves as fulfilled, successful, and acceptable. As such, resistance is shaped by the existence of positive social representations which can be shared with other people. In this context, our main contributions include a broader view of resistance and the attention we give to the fragmented and contradictory nature of these individual acts. We discuss the implications of this in relation to future studies of singles and analyses of individual resistance.