How to Avoid the Valentines Day Blues

Valentines Day is almost here. A day when couples around the world express their feelings for each other with material goods and sexual favors. For those 'lucky' people, its a fun filled romantic holiday. However, for single people its easily the loneliest day of the year. Trust me, I've been single for every Valentines Day to date. Relationships seem to always end in January for me. As such, I have plenty of experience being alone and single on Valentines Day. Follow these tips to avoid being too lonely on Valentines Day:

1. Do not talk to any of your 'coupled up' friends.
On Valentines Day, any of your friends with girlfriends, fiance, or wives are no longer your friends. You can talk to them the day after. Ignore them on Valentines Day. If you talk to them, you'll be finding out what they will do, or have done, with their significant other. They'll share with you how they bought chocolates and flowers and had a fancy night out. You don't want to hear that, so just ignore them.

2. Avoid dating hot spots.
Stay away from movie theaters. I cannot stress this enough. If you go there you'll be utterly dismal. Even though in my opinion its a lame Valentines Day date, many couples do a cliche 'dinner and a movie' type date. Another negative aspect about Valentines Day is that some men try to be creative with their dates. This can result in seeing romantic couples pretty much everywhere.

If at all possible, avoid going out alone. When you decide to leave the house, see if a fellow single friend wants to join you. This helps quite a bit in a few ways. Firstly, you aren't alone. This will relieve you of focusing all your attention on whats going on around you. Secondly, you and your friends can make fun of couples doing couple things. Who doesn't like that?