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Christmas can feel like a tricky time if you’re single. Instagram is full of loved up couple couples wearing Christmas jumpers and exchanging gifts, festive films like Love Actually are pushing the romance and it’s easy to feel a bit flat. However, there are some very big plus points to being single at Christmas - here’s why flying solo at this time of year is actually the best.

You don’t have to visit the in-laws

Choosing who to spend Christmas with is a minefield when you have a partner and this year it will be even worse because only three households are able to mix over a very short period. And if you do decide to forego seeing you own immediate family and spend it with your partner’s, there’s no guarantee you won’t end up wishing very hard you were elsewhere. When you’re single you can please yourself, and that is a real luxury so enjoy it whilst you can.

You can avoid the gift giving stress

For many couples, giving presents comes with a big dollop of stress. Will you spend roughly the same amount, or does someone splash out too much? What if your other half barely puts any thought in when you’ve combed the internet for hours for just the right thing? How about if you’ve dropped hints for months and it turns out they’re completely tone deaf when it comes to your desires? If you don’t have a partner to give a present to, you won’t have this worry.

You can look forward to meeting someone

Despite what we might hope for in terms of romance and togetherness, Christmas can actually put a massive strain on relationships. If a couple have already spent too much time cooped up together in 2020, Christmas is only going to make that overfamiliarity and general irritation worse. If you’re single you can spend Christmas dreaming about that wonderful someone you’re going to meet next year instead of getting annoyed at your partner because they’ve put the decorations up wrong again.

You can opt out altogether

Everyone should spend one Christmas doing exactly what they want with no obligations, so why not make this one yours? Spend it with a gang of likeminded friends or go it completely alone and spend the day watching whatever you want on telly, or going out for a long walk. The end of the year is a great time to reflect on your life and get yourself in a great headspace for 2021.

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