This article discusses navigating the holiday season alone and managing feelings of loneliness. It features advice from a relationship and sex educator, Lalalaletmeexplain, answering a reader's question about feeling isolated during the holidays.
In Lalalaletmeexplain's hit column, readers ask for her expert advice on their own love, sex and relationship problems. With over 200k Instagram followers, Lala is the anonymous voice helping womankind through every bump in the road. An established sex, dating and relationship educator, she’s had her fair share of relationship drama and shares her wisdom on social media to a loyal army of followers.
Every week thousands turn to her to answer their questions (no matter how embarrassing), and her funny, frank approach to love and relationships has made her the ultimate feel-good guru. For this week's column, simply continue reading... Dear Lala, I’ve been single for about eight years. I’ve created a wonderful life for my 14-year-old son, and I have a thriving career that I have built during that time. 95 per cent of the time, I don’t feel lonely at all, and I love my single life - except around the holidays. I find them so hard. It’s the one time I do feel lonely and I’m already dreading it. My son is with his dad this coming Christmas, which is ok because I have family visiting, but they are going home on 30 December, so I’ll be alone for New Year’s Eve. None of my friends is going to be local for NYE, either. I don’t know why I’m placing such importance on NYE because, logically, I know it’s just one night, but I can’t help but feel anxious and a bit of a loser about it. I don’t have the funds to go away myself as I’m recently back from a holiday in the US. I’d love your insights on navigating the upcoming holidays solo in a way that I don’t feel so isolated or like a loser. Lala says… The holiday period is, without a doubt, one of the loneliest times of the year for a lot of people. Social media has increased this. We now get a highlight reel of thousands of other people’s Christmases and New Year, and it can look as though everyone is surrounded by joy fun and laughte
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