), Christmas/Chanukah/Kwanza, and New Year's; they're happening anyway, regardless of your current relationship status.

Instead, focus on the advantages that dating during the holiday season will bring you: something to talk about during dates (funny family stories, traditions, etc), overall happier people, seasonal activities, and so on.

Getting to know somebody else in hopes to open our minds, body, and spirit in is scary, and always will be. We are either going to really like someone, have nothing in common with someone and never talk to them again, date for a while and it end badly, date for a while and it end amicably, or spend the rest of our lives with somebody.

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