I didn’t know “cuffing season” was an actual thing until I told a friend that it might be time to end things with his current girlfriend and his exact response was, “Maybe in a few weeks, I can’t break up with her now, it's cuffing season.”

After hearing this I was genuinely baffled that in the minds of some people the concept of cuffing season is an actual thing rather than just a term used on social media for laughs.

Personally, I think the idea of dating someone just because the winter months are better for cuddling (or whatever other lame excuse people come up with to justify this) is completely bogus.

It is a continuously talked about topic that the dating habits of this generation are absolutely distorted. We all knew that we all live in the there’s always something better out there the hookup culture that our generation has created.

But the idea that we turn off the hookups for a few weeks in the winter to “cuff” someone is absolutely heinous. A majority of these relationships won’t make it much past the new year because they’re all based on a trend that we laugh about on Twitter.

So, if you’re getting into a new relationship just because that’s the thing to do in December & January, maybe just don’t. Don’t buy into the idea that you have to be in a relationship to enjoy the holiday season.

There are all these wonderful things people do during the holidays that when done with the most important people in your life can create amazing memories. But, when you do them with your S/O of the season they become trivial and meaningless after the fun of the cuffing season wears off.

So instead of trying to find someone to cuff: go drink hot cocoa with your mom, go ice skating with your little brother, take all your friends to go for a drive and look at Christmas lights.