Six Tips to Help You Cope with Being Single on Valentine’s Day

Even if you are single by choice, Valentine’s Day can be a rather depressing day for those without partners. It is hard to escape all the displays of red and pink cards, and difficult to ignore the adverts for special gifts and dinners without feeling a little lonely and left out. However, there are ways to avoid feeling negative or depressed. Read on to find out how to survive Valentine’s Day as a single person, and how to even end up feeling cheerful into the bargain.

1) Realize that these days, Valentine’s Day is pushed on us primarily to help companies get rich from sales of quickly eaten chocolates and quickly forgotten cards. If nothing else, being single on Valentine’s Day is saving you some money that you can spend on something much more significant and enduring.

2) Find out if there are any local events for single people. Given the amount of people who rebel against Valentine’s Day, you will often find organized nights at bars and clubs where single people can get together and enjoy hiding from the tackiness of the hearts and flowers in the outside world.

3) Consider that although you are without a partner, you are not alone in one very important sense. Indeed, an estimated sixty million people worldwide will also be single on this holiday. In addition, think about the fact that many of them are probably perfectly happy on Valentine’s Day and that plenty of them think it is a rather pointless commercialized holiday.

5) On Valentine’s Day and the days surrounding it, avoid spending time with the sort of people who are likely to engage in nauseating bragging about the expensive and romantic gifts they are about to give or receive. Instead, gravitate towards people who think that Valentine’s Day is no big deal, or people who are single as well.

6) Spend some time thinking about all the benefits that come from being single (benefits that are almost always lost when you enter into a serious relationship). You have your own space, you can generally plan your time according to your own desires, you don’t have to answer to anyone for the decisions you make, you are free to date and pursue many different kinds of new people, and sooner or later you will probably experience all the butterflies and excitement of falling in love again.