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The booming economy means people are working harder than ever. And that doesn’t leave much room for relationships. Pimpi Arroyo，a 35-year-old composer who lives alone in a house in Paris, says he hasn’t got time to get lonely because he has too much work.“I have deadlines which would make life with someone else fairly difficult.”Only an Ideal Woman would make him change his lifestyle, he says. Kaufmann, author of a recent book called “The Single Woman and Prince Charming,”thinks this fierce new individualism means that people expect more and more of mates, so relationships don’t last long—if they start at all. Eppendorf, a blond Berliner with a deep tan, teaches grade school in the mornings. In the afternoon she sunbathes or sleeps, resting up for going dancing. Just shy of 50，she says she’d never have wanted to do what her mother did—give up a career to raise a family. Instead.“