If you’re reading this, chances are you’re bae-less and anxiously awaiting for Valentine’s Day to be over with. If we’re anything alike, the words bae, babe, love and sweetie have only been used to describe your dog and celebrity crush (Matthew McConaughey is all mine, back off girls). Fret not, ladies. After 18 years of Single Awareness Days, I have come up with the ultimate survival guide to get us through the 24-hours of love, pink and excessive Facebook posts!
Get Outta Dodge.
While this may not be the most accessible of tips, if you have the means, get the heck out this place! Take a weekend getaway, go home or better yet, disappear to a remote area with no Wi-Fi. You won’t have to scroll through the seemingly endless Insta posts celebrating two-week relationships or feel obligated to fake “like” Laura’s FB post so that she’ll still talk to you at yoga on Monday.
There is power in numbers.
Gather together each single person within a 15-mile radius of yourself. Be it bars or board games, do something and do it with a lot of people. Not only are they in the same loveless boat as you, they will take your mind off of the daunting feeling that you’re not doing this day right.
STAY. OFF. SOCIAL. MEDIA.
You know this. I know this. It had to be said.
Surround yourself with the things that make you you.
It’s okay to spend money on things that make you happy! Chocolate chip pancakes, a bouquet of flowers (To: you, From: you), that Venti Vanilla Latte; make today about you! You’re pretty awesome afterall.
Just because you’re single today doesn’t make you any less single the other days of the year.
You’ve gotten through 364 (possibly 6,552), of single days; you can most certainly get through this Hallmark Holiday!