What if This is Your Very last Valentine’s Day as a One Female?

Ugh. Yet another Valentine’s Working day.

What if you Realized this would be your final Valentine’s Day as a solitary female?

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

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

If I had known that Valentine’s Working day 2006 was going to be my very last as a single lady, below is what I may well have accomplished in its place of grumbling about how stupid it was and experience in some way “less-than” as I ate evening meal and drank wine on your own at home.

I would have:

• Long gone out with my one girlfriends and looked at them lovingly, with compassion and gratitude for all that we shared together…knowing that as soon as I bought married, our friendships would for good improve, but my “girls” would still be a joyous, significant element of my daily life. Indeed, I’d explain to them, I will have a minimal much less time, but my deep really like, admiration and require for our link will not diminish 1 little bit. (This hasn”t changed in excess of the 16 Valentine’s Times given that I have been married.)
• Handled myself to a awesome bottle of champagne, toasting that I had accomplished perhaps the best problem of my existence: starting to be a lady with the self-confidence and competence to day like a grownup and appeal to the form, loving guy I dreamed of sharing my existence with.
  
  • Provided myself a substantial large-five for all that I completed on my personal. I tackled existence by myself for so extensive and created a safe lifetime filled with the beauty and like of mates and spouse and children. I would come to feel happy of myself and a tiny wistful recognizing I was happily retiring my 100% independence as my badge of honor.
  • Gone to a cafe with some pals and, rather of seeking at all the happy partners with envy and resentment, I’d smile and come to feel a certain heat recognizing I was surrounded by people today who beloved each other and were being celebrating that enjoy. When you assume of it, what is far better than that, I’d opine.
  • Volunteered at my neighborhood women’s shelter. Probably I’d have even bought a bunch of low-cost valentines and handed them out there. People today do this on other holidays, but given that Valentine’s Working day is about like, what superior way to clearly show it than by compassionately sharing with these who most need to have to truly feel valued, hopeful, and cherished?

Realizing that I would invest the rest of my Valentine’s Days with the enjoy of my lifestyle would fill me with enjoyment about my upcoming, and gratitude and pride for my earlier.

I would have recognized that I was exactly where by I was meant to be in my life: on the journey main me to lots of, many more a long time of joyously and overtly offering and receiving appreciate.

Being aware of it was my previous Valentine’s Day as a solitary lady would have transformed how I handled myself and those around me.

How about you? How would this Valentine’s Working day be for you if you understood it was your last as a solitary female? I want to listen to from you.

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