Holiday love: Bah! Humbug!
Most of us would agree that this is the worst time of year to suffer through a breakup.
From Thanksgiving feasting to New Year's midnight smooches, it ain't easy to be alone around now. Especially if you're freshly alone.
The other week, I posted about what would make for good holiday dates. But what if you have no dates? Last night I watched a movie, some football and cooked a frozen pizza. Then down in my cold cold bed. Not bad for a Sunday.
Last year I had someone warm next to me. This year? Not there.
Yeah, there are possibilities on the horizon, but it can take a while to recover from full-on romance and then turn up the flame with another person.
But between this or that date, there are those still moments when you're sitting in a coffee shop and watching the couples bustle by with their lattes and hot chocolates. Or the plans you had once before now don't include bringing someone home to the family. In these times, I lean hard on my friends, maybe take a road trip, and look at the New Year as a way to reassess my situation and plan where I want to head from here.
What do you do?
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When you start to feel down about being alone at the holidays, just think of the price of a pair of diamond earrings, and how that number is still in your bank account. If that doesn't warm your heart, I don't know what will.
My advice for holiday break-ups is the same as any time of year: get a dog. Your bed will be warm, you have somebody to take walks with, and that is always a -til-death-do-you-part relationship.
Just think of all the women in the coffee shop sipping their cocoa, wishing they were with the guy outside with the friendly lab instead of listening to their boyfriend talk about his parents' time-share.
Posted on December 17, 2007 12:29 PM
-Haha! Or maybe wishing that she didn't have to go visit his judgemental mother again at the parents' time-share?
Posted on December 17, 2007 1:11 PM
The only thing that gets me through thanksgiving is thinking about whatever i will buy myself on black friday. Now just think... your significant other would probably have you on a set schedule waiting outside of Macy's and demanding that you recite exactly what perfumes to get her while she grabbed clothes when you could've been at best buy...That happened to me once...still a little bitter.
Posted on December 17, 2007 2:02 PM
Hmm, I don't ever see couples at my coffee shop. Maybe you should switch coffee shops, Wingfella.
But seriously, I've realized it's easier to endure the requisite "So are you seeing anyone?" question from my family than it would be to prepare a boyfriend for the insanity he would face coming home with me, in all its shuffling from parent to parent glory.
Posted on December 17, 2007 4:04 PM