One of the worst things about being newly single is dealing with “wedding season.” (In case you’re not familiar, wedding season is when most people get married, usually falling somewhere around May through August, but also September through December and February through April.) It’s not that getting divorced makes you a horrible bitter person, but when it seems like everyone you know in the world is getting married or engaged, but your life is crumbling all around you, it’s hard to want to celebrate love. It is quite easy to drown your sorrows in a jar of peanut butter, but we’ve been told that we prescribe that home remedy far too often, so we’re going to give you some non-nut-based tips for coping with other people’s happiness.
Tips for how to deal with EVERYONE YOU KNOW IN THE WORLD getting married or engaged when your life is crumbling all around you:
- The name of the game is denial.
- First clean up your Facebook. Hide all stories from every newly engaged or newly married friend. In fact, play defense and hide stories from anyone who has been in some sort of committed like relationship for more than 90 days.
- Warning: your Facebook newsfeed will get a lot more depressing, but that’s ok because you should spend less time on Facebook and more time in the world trying to meet someone richer/younger/hotter/older.
- If you’re getting announcements in the mail, fire your mailman and move to Costa Rica with no forwarding address.
- If your mom keeps calling you and telling you about cousins and friends and blah blah blah just got married or just had the cutest baby, DO NOT TRY TO FIRE YOUR MOM. What you can do instead, is as soon as she starts talking like “do you remember SO AND SO?” just concentrate hard on something else like naming all the bones in the human body. And if you’re already a bone doctor or something, think about something that you don’t understand like “Who is Demi Lovato?”
Time to commit this to memory.
Everyone Gets Divorced 
All I heard was deny deny deny and make plans for costa rica. sounds good to me!
Also: if you do get smacked with a facebook notification, focus on how unappealing the person’s fiance/spouse is and how you would divorce them if you married them. If they are appealing, just get drunk.
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