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Celebrate Valentine’s Day on Your Own Terms
Here are some tips to help you through this complicated holiday
Valentine’s Day has become one of the most complicated days of the year. People around the world either look forward to it with excited energy, brush it off as just another day, or dread the sadness it will inevitably invoke. The annual holiday, inspired by the Roman fertility festival Lupercalia, has become a love barometer of sorts — whether people use the day to show special appreciation to that someone special in their lives or do value assessments of their relationships based on what they did or didn’t get, the day is undeniably polarizing. It doesn’t have to be that way, though.
If you’re a single woman, it can be especially daunting to see all of the red hearts and pink flowers that have been popping up everywhere since December. Constant reminders that love is going to be in the air makes you reevaluate whether or not being single, sexy, and free is truly as liberating as it feels in the summertime. Then you log onto social media and see all the cool kids making woke emo posts about hypercapitalist consumption culture and how Valentine’s Day is just another meaningless man-made cash-grabbing holiday. That or the “I don’t need Valentine’s Day because I show my baby love every day” dweebs. You check…
