What if This is Your Final Valentine’s Working day as a Single Woman?

Ugh. Yet another Valentine’s Working day.

What if you Knew this would be your final Valentine’s Working day as a solitary girl?

The previous one particular used with “me, myself, and I,” with a pack of single girlfriends or by yourself on your sofa?

How would that transform how you interact, what you opt for to do, and how you truly feel about this “Singles Awareness Day?”

If I experienced regarded that Valentine’s Day 2006 was likely to be my final as a single girl, below is what I might have completed alternatively of grumbling about how silly it was and emotion someway “less-than” as I ate meal and drank wine alone at house.

I would have:

• Absent out with my one girlfriends and looked at them lovingly, with compassion and gratitude for all that we shared together…knowing that the moment I acquired married, our friendships would eternally alter, but my “girls” would even now be a joyous, sizeable component of my existence. Indeed, I’d convey to them, I will have a little less time, but my deep really like, admiration and need for our connection won’t diminish one little bit. (This hasn”t modified about the 16 Valentine’s Times because I have been married.)
• Taken care of myself to a awesome bottle of champagne, toasting that I experienced completed potentially the best obstacle of my daily life: getting to be a girl with the assurance and competence to date like a grownup and entice the kind, loving man I dreamed of sharing my life with.
  
  • Given myself a substantial substantial-5 for all that I attained on my possess. I tackled life by myself for so extended and created a protected everyday living loaded with the attractiveness and really like of close friends and loved ones. I would come to feel very pleased of myself and a minor wistful realizing I was fortunately retiring my 100% independence as my badge of honor.
  • Long gone to a cafe with some buddies and, alternatively of looking at all the content couples with envy and resentment, I’d smile and feel a selected warmth understanding I was surrounded by people today who beloved every other and were celebrating that appreciate. When you think of it, what is much better than that, I’d opine.
  • Volunteered at my community women’s shelter. Possibly I’d have even bought a bunch of low-cost valentines and handed them out there. Individuals do this on other holidays, but considering that Valentine’s Day is about adore, what improved way to present it than by compassionately sharing with these who most will need to truly feel valued, hopeful, and loved?

Knowing that I would invest the relaxation of my Valentine’s Times with the really like of my existence would fill me with pleasure about my foreseeable future, and gratitude and delight for my previous.

I would have recognized that I was accurately where I was supposed to be in my existence: on the journey main me to numerous, numerous a lot more a long time of joyously and openly providing and receiving like.

Realizing it was my last Valentine’s Working day as a solitary female would have changed how I taken care of myself and those people about me.

How about you? How would this Valentine’s Working day be for you if you realized it was your previous as a single girl? I want to hear from you.

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