What does it mean if you are single on Christmas?

I'm sorry you're spending Christmas alone, OP.

I'm not in a good place mentally to be with someone else until I have can get my shit worked out

It means one less present you have to buy. You're saving money.

It means you're lucky, OP. You don't have to put up with any family or personal relationship drama. Instead, you get to enjoy the holiday in peace.

Count your blessings.

I agree. I don't have to watch my alcoholic family fight over a football game. Or listen to crap about Fox news or Trump.

OP, did the voices tell you to post this?

We live in a cold, unjust universe, OP.

It means you’re highly selective

I’m in the same boat, OP. It’s not the first time. It’s okay.

Decorate the house beautifully, make some nice food, all your favorites. Turn off the news. Play some relaxing music. Put on some white Christmas lights. Burn some fragrant candles. Spend the time spoiling yourself. Buy yourself some nice pajamas or a nice sweater or something you enjoy.

Chinese New Year is at the end of January this year, I believe. The Chinese have a tradition that people are supposed to clean the house from top to bottom and get all their bills paid in preparation for the new year, to start you off with a clean slate at the beginning of the year. It’s a good luck thing. They end on New Years Eve by sweeping all the dirt out the front door. I’m already starting on some of that. It’s a tradition I do every year.

If you like Christmas music, here’s a nice, low key album.

I've been single my entire life so I must be very ugly.

Or maybe I prefer it that way.

Why can't Americans say "at Christmas"? ON Christmas Day. ON Christmas EVE. AT Christmas.

Don’t mock, R10. That’s a real thing for a lot of people. Being handsome or pretty does a lot for your social prospects. I have a lot of relatives who are very attractive and the amount of dreadful behavior that is excused for them is really shocking. If they were average looking, they’d probably all be locked up somewhere.

At Christmas, everyone around you seems happy and full of fun, so if that’s not your situation, it makes it harder to bear. Even knowing a lot of it is fake and put on, and consists of enduring Trumpish relatives, still, having no one does particularly hit harder then usual this time of year.

Have a bit of Christmas compassion, it doesn’t cost anything.

Have a lovely Christmas, OP.

[quote] It means you're ugly

Only on the inside, OP.

It means you're comfortable with yourself, and don't feel that by being single you're half a person.

But OP:

I guess I’m doing everything wrong. I’m single and I bought a while shit load of presents for aunts, uncles, cousins, mom and friends.

I'm single. I'm taking a holiday trip with some friends, it's going to be a great time.

Quit being a sad sack.