3 Ways To Survive Christmas While Dating*

As a single person I actually find Christmas harder to navigate that Valentines Day. Valentines Day might be one day dedicated to love, but Christmas feels like a whole season dedicated to it, even if just indirectly. And while you may be happy for your friends and loved ones in their happy relationships, it’s totally okay to have that sick sadness feeling in the pit of your stomach as you attend Christmas events alone. You’re allowed to feel sad but there are ways to survive being single, or just newly dating during the holiday season and I wanted to share those with you today.

Find a Date

I know, I know. You probably are trying you best to meet someone, and it doesn’t always work out that easily. Trust me, I’m there with you. But I’m not talking about finding the love of you life, I’m talking about meeting a “right now” kind of person and seeing where that goes. Have you tried local dating? For example, free dating sites Cambridgeshire if that’s your local area? Dating someone local means that you should be more flexible and did you know Winter is the best time to date? All the fun wintery activities, like grabbing a coffee, ice skating and Christmas markets (well usually anyway). And you never know, you might actually have someone to kiss when the bells ring in the new year! If this sounds like something you want to have a go at, try dating agency Cambridgeshire and you never know who else is feeling lonely this Christmas!

Spend Money On Yourself

Okay, so you decided that you don’t want to date over the holiday season for whatever reason, then instead, use that time and energy for spending money on yourself. Get your hair done, get your nails done, buy that new dress. You don’t need an other half to treat you, you are more than capable of doing it yourself. Especially after the year we’ve had! Don’t feel pressured into buying gifts for people you only see once or twice a year, you deserve that new bag you’ve had you eye on. You deserve that bottle of champagne. Christmas is the season for giving, well if you need that pick me up there is nothing wrong with you being the person you’re giving to!

Just Relax

For me, the golden rule for surviving Christmas as a single person is to just take it in my stride. You don’t have to answer the awkward questions about your love life. If you’re newly dating someone, you don’t have to answer questions about marriage or children. You can politely excuse yourself from that conversation as it’s no ones business but your own. And if you want to sit at home and eat all the amazing Christmas snacks in your snowman pjs while drinking Baileys and watching The Holiday for the 600th time, that’s perfectly okay too. 2020 has been hard on us all, relax and take some personal time to do what makes you happy!

Christmas might be the true season of love, but make sure you take some time to love yourself too!