I have been that single girl on Valentine’s Day, when around 11am the office starts to look like a florist shop and all of a sudden you look around and realise your desk looks so dull just sitting there all alone as everyone else’s blooms away.
I have also been the girl with the embarrassingly big bloom display and as much as I am thankful that I have someone now to send me flowers and I don’t have to contemplate making up a secret admirer (hey desperate times) I still will always know what it’s like to be the flowerless and dateless girl on Valentine’s.
So please, here are my tips for not inducing eye rolls on singles awareness day:
1. Keep it off social media – posting a long winded ‘I love you’ post on Facebook to your partner who is probably sitting right next to you is just obnoxious and unoriginal. If you really mean it, you will text it. And while we are at it, social media doesn’t need to see the stuffed teddy bear and roses he got you, and hash tagging it with #truelove is grounds for an unfollowing.
2. Do not act condescendingly to your single friends as you hold a big bunch of flowers and say “maybe next year this could be you.” Sarah, just because you are holding a bouquet of flowers on the day of love does not mean you have something they want so don’t act like you do. It’s smug and nobody likes a smart ass.
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