Now, for a while, I had no idea what cuffing season is. Cuffing season as described by urban dictionary "During the Fall and Winter months people who would normally rather be single or promiscuous find themselves along with the rest of the world desiring to be "Cuffed" or tied down by a serious relationship. The cold weather and prolonged indoor activity cause singles to become lonely and desperate to be cuffed"

This makes complete sense! It's cold you want to be snuggled, you want to do all those cute fall things with people. It makes sense. I mean you're telling me when it's absolutely freezing outside you don't want to be snuggled by something that is warm? That may be something other than your pet? Thought so.

I didn't know what it meant for a while still the word cuffing. It makes sense though putting cuffs on someone and wanting to be attached to that person and tied down. It's weird how I had never heard of it before but yet have definitely felt all these things as the weather gets colder.

I've always imagined in college what it would be like to meet someone and celebrate the holidays with them, and you know, take them home to meet the folks.

You see it in movies, people bringing their sweeties home for the holidays and getting to know each other's families at the annual Christmas family parties, where of course, your crazy relative drinks too much, your step-parent is asking you about the college parties you've been too, or some political fight breaks out between family members.

I've always wanted to bring someone to my favorite family tradition of having a Yankee trader swap and showing them what my family is like, because I love my family, and these traditions I share with them are ones I want to share with a loved one someday. I've always felt this kind of thing around the holidays, just never knew the word for them.

I see my friends around me getting to know guys and doing all these cute things, and it makes me jealous because I want that. However, maybe that is just cuffing season taking its toll on me, or maybe it's because I'm missing someone at home. Who knows.

I wanted to talk about cuffing season briefly in case anybody else was feeling this way and didn't understand what the heck was going on. However, I do think my luck may be turning around, and this may not just be side effects from cuffing season. I guess we will have to see. Here's looking at you, sir.