What if This is Your Last Valentine’s Day as a One Lady?

Ugh. One more Valentine’s Working day.

What if you Knew this would be your last Valentine’s Working day as a single lady?

The final one particular expended with “me, myself, and I,” with a pack of single girlfriends or by yourself on your couch?

How would that change how you interact, what you select to do, and how you come to feel about this “Singles Awareness Day?”

If I experienced regarded that Valentine’s Working day 2006 was going to be my last as a one woman, here is what I may possibly have finished as a substitute of grumbling about how silly it was and feeling someway “less-than” as I ate dinner and drank wine alone at household.

I would have:

• Absent out with my single girlfriends and looked at them lovingly, with compassion and gratitude for all that we shared together…knowing that once I bought married, our friendships would forever alter, but my “girls” would nevertheless be a joyous, considerable portion of my daily life. Sure, I’d inform them, I will have a little less time, but my deep appreciate, admiration and want for our connection won’t diminish just one bit. (This hasn”t improved about the 16 Valentine’s Days considering that I’ve been married.)
• Treated myself to a pleasant bottle of champagne, toasting that I experienced attained perhaps the biggest problem of my lifestyle: turning out to be a lady with the self-assurance and competence to day like a grownup and attract the variety, loving person I dreamed of sharing my existence with.
  
  • Supplied myself a substantial large-5 for all that I attained on my possess. I tackled everyday living by myself for so prolonged and made a secure life loaded with the beauty and really like of friends and household. I would come to feel happy of myself and a little wistful understanding I was fortunately retiring my 100% independence as my badge of honor.
  • Gone to a cafe with some friends and, rather of wanting at all the content couples with envy and resentment, I’d smile and experience a specified heat understanding I was surrounded by people who liked just about every other and were celebrating that really like. When you think of it, what’s much better than that, I’d opine.
  • Volunteered at my regional women’s shelter. Maybe I’d have even purchased a bunch of affordable valentines and handed them out there. People today do this on other holiday seasons, but due to the fact Valentine’s Working day is about adore, what much better way to clearly show it than by compassionately sharing with these who most need to feel valued, hopeful, and cherished?

Recognizing that I would invest the rest of my Valentine’s Days with the enjoy of my lifestyle would fill me with excitement about my long run, and gratitude and delight for my earlier.

I would have identified that I was particularly where I was supposed to be in my daily life: on the journey major me to several, many a lot more yrs of joyously and brazenly offering and getting appreciate.

Knowing it was my final Valentine’s Working day as a single female would have altered how I addressed myself and individuals close to me.

How about you? How would this Valentine’s Day be for you if you understood it was your final as a solitary lady? I want to listen to from you.

And, btw, if this helped you at all, will you share it with your girlfriends?