To My Fellow Single People During This Holiday Season
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To My Fellow Single People During This Holiday Season

Cheers to the awkward questions about your relationship status!

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To My Fellow Single People During This Holiday Season
Kathleen Griffin

To The Single Person at the Beginning of the Holidays,

My friends, brace yourselves, Thanksgiving and Christmas are coming and I'm sure you know what that means. QUESTIONS. Questions about your relationship status, your orientation, are you sure about your orientation, blind dates, your family playing cupid and trying to set you up on blind dates with the grandson/son or granddaughter/daughter of a friend of a friend. It's annoying, discouraging, insulting, and just a little hmmm...how do I say this? impertinent?

Now, we all know that it comes from them having the "best of intentions", but it doesn't make it less awkward. Or you desperately sign up for Tinder with a tagline similar to, "Just trying to find a date for Holiday Parties, will go to your annoying parties too"...yeah, wasn't my best moment either.

So here is my advice, what I (the person who has never had a serious, or potentially a, relationship ever) would like to say to the singles during holiday season. Don't sweat it. Ignore them or take them up on their offers if that's where you are at in your life. If you don't want to be set up though, just tell them no. If you are like me, I have a hard time saying "no" to people. But you know what, we, the single people of the world, have the right to be single. Be it by choice or circumstance, do what makes you happy.

Don't let people shame you for being on your own. It doesn't mean that something is wrong with you. Something is wrong with them if they make you feel weird about your relationship status. Own it. Be you and be happy. But more importantly, be you! And cheers to the singledom!

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