When your partner is away, how do you come out to play? Do you #FreeTheNip and walk around your apartment, boobs to the wind? Maybe you rummage through your old issues of and while listening to “Pon de Replay.” (Can’t blame ya. 😉) Or perhaps you cover yourself from head-to-toe in vanilla-scented Tree Hut sugar scrub while watching the most poorly-rated .
(Just me on that last one? Mmmk.) ’s famously coined unique, quirky solo activities like these “Secret Single Behaviors”—SSBs—in the season 4 episode “The Good Fight.” Feeling a little stifled by her chatty BF in their small, cluttered apartment, Carrie tells her friends she misses the peace of her space before he moved in—the kind of peace where she could do the private things she’d want him to see her do; things she never had to think twice about , like eating a stack of saltines with grape jelly while standing in her kitchen reading fashion magazines.
Miranda says her SSB is putting Vaseline on her hands and “putting them in those Borghese conditioning gloves while watching infomercials.” Charlotte’s SSB? in a magnifying mirror for an hour every night. (In classic Samantha fashion, she says she has nothing to hide.
) While the episode aired in 2002, the entire series dropped on Netflix in April 2024, and Gen Z viewers are discovering the horny, early-aughts show for the first time, taking to TikTok to share their own SSBs. User said she understands why girls get annoyed when their partners c.
