Single For The Holidays: A Pop QuizBy Jenny Ferguson [Happy Holidays]
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 Every holiday season there are dozens of get-togethers hosted by friends. Your newly coupled friends might want to have the gang over for dinner and drinks, your married friends are hosting their annual holiday potluck and then there are the events around town with your many girlfriends or guy friends, some coupled, some single. How does the single survive a flurry of holiday plans with friends? Single Smarts If you feel uncomfortable in a room full of couples, ask your coupled friends if you can bring a date, maybe someone you’ve dated a time or two and you wouldn’t mind getting to know a little more. Let your coupled friends know that you feel awkward being in a room with a bunch of starry-eyed couples. Maybe they could invite a few more singles? Or you could politely excuse yourself from the couples-only-except-for-you dinner party your friends are throwing. But remember, your friends know you’re single. It’s no big surprise. These are the people that you’re supposed to be able to be yourself around without any family or career issues getting in the way. Single people can still have fun at the holidays, even at a party where everyone seems to be coupled up. Pop Quiz: Single At The Family Gathering It’s your family’s annual holiday clan gathering and everybody and their current flame will be there. Your grandma even has a date. Your aunts will be there and their sole purpose always seems to be quizzing (and criticizing) you on your dating life. They will probably try to set you up with a second cousin or some distant, recently divorced family friend. And you will feel like your married sisters and brothers are showing you up. You may be replaced as favourite grandchild. Single Smarts Skip town? Run as far and as fast as you can? Get married at an Elvis Chapel the night before the big family event to someone you’ve just met so you can bring a suitable date? All kidding aside, surviving any family event is tough. It’s especially hard if you’re over the age of 19 and single. And it gets worse the older you get. Families seem to expect us to couple up and get married. If we haven’t successfully done so, then it turns into the only conversation we seem to be able to have with our family members. The key is to remember that your family probably just wants you to be happy. Bring a bottle of wine to charm your grandmother, avoid your aunts or redirect the conversation to their love lives to see how they like it and team up with your other single family members so that your family never gets the chance to corner you alone. Alone Under The Mistletoe? You can still enjoy the holidays in spite of your single status. Make the best of what you have and enjoy the holiday season no matter where you find yourself or how many couples you’re surrounded by. Happy holidays! |
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