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And then I got into a relationship and realised I’d been wrong all along. It is harder being in a relationship on V-day because of the pressure. Even if you think you’re the most chilled person ever, and that you don’t care about presents and cards and all that faff; as soon as the day comes round you can’t help feeling disappointed when all of your other loved up friends are showing off their new necklaces, earrings and other such extravagant presents.
So this year I am embracing being single, no pressure, and definitely no disappointment.
These are my rules for having the best Valentine’s Day - the only way to avoid the disappointment and faff: alone.
Plan a night with your single friends – the worst thing you can do on, or near, Valentine’s Day is to spend time with couples, or even one half of a couple. So no answering the phone, or talking to or having anything to do with those infuriatingly loved-up people. It’s time to get to know your weird single friends again. So what, they can’t be loved by anyone else; you can try, for just this one day at least.
Pick up the phone and give them a call, get them to crawl out of their lonely world and take them out on the town. Well, at least they won’t be talking about what their other half is doing/has done/is going to do - or worse, texting their other-half constantly.
Take a duvet day – so V-Day is a Monday this year, screw lectures and seminars, today you are going to stay in your PJ’s and stay in bed. Prepare the night before; make sure you have enough chocolate and bad movies within reach of the bed so you don’t have to actually get out. But no soppy lovey movies, that is, unless you want to sink into a deep deep misery.
If that is the case why not crack out the old couple’s photos album you built up over a three year relationship, and reminisce about all those amazing times you have? After all, look what you had – you were so happy and in love, every experience was new and amazing. Then compare that to what you have now, lonely nights and wayyy too many bags of broken biscuits.
Thought not.
Avoid Facebook for a day. Some of us are self-proclaimed addicts, myself included. I wake up, and check Facebook on my phone whilst my computer is still loading – but maybe, just maybe, this Valentine’s Day I will hold back. If I turn it on and see a load of annoying couples commenting lovely things on each other’s walls about how much of an amazing day they’ve got planned, or even a single status update proclaiming how this new necklace is amazing, or those bunch of roses delivered to my door by a naked flying cherub were the best thing I’ve ever received I may actually throw up.
Okay, so maybe I am a cynic. But I guess I was always this way. Single or not, Valentine’s Day has always been pretty shit, and I truly believe it always will be.
Happy V-Day folks.
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