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HOW TO BUILD A SOCIAL CIRCLE NETWORK How to Host A Singles Party By Frank Kermit I hear people starting to plan anti-Valentine’s Day Parties because they and many of the people around them happen to be single. Many of these people wouldn’t be single on Valentine’s Day (V-Day) if they would all agree to date someone who already likes them (like the friend who asked them out, but got rejected). Alas, people are complicated as perhaps some of them actually enjoy the other name for V-day: Single Awareness Day (SAD). With that said, I would like to suggest to anyone hosting an anti-V-Day party that you and your guests need not get stuck on SAD. There is a way to turn your anti-V-Day party into the best kind of singles meet-n-greet. Many years ago, when I began my personal journey to understanding dating and relationships, I connected with a new circle friends that acted like a support group for one another. We all had a common goal. We wanted better love lives. This group of stellar friends and I decided to put together a singles party, but how we organized it was a little different. When we started to invite others to this singles party, we had very specific and peculiar rules that seemed odd at first, but once people understood the premise, they were into it. Here is what you need to do: Establish a core group of people that will be doing the inviting. A point person, who is in charge of the guest list, is assigned for everyone to check in with. Each person is only allowed to bring 1 guest, possibly 2; depending on what information the point person has been given. The rule was, each group member who was single, had to bring someone to the party of the opposite gender, that he or she wasn’t dating. Meaning a man could bring his a female friend that he rejected, or who rejected him, a girl he once dated but is no longer seeing, or even a serious ex-girlfriend that he remains on good terms with. Each woman would have to bring a male friend that she rejected, or who rejected her, a guy that she once dated but is no longer seeing, or even a serious ex-boyfriend that she remains on good terms with. The goal is to end up with an even number of men and woman, who are all single, who are all interested in meeting new people, and who all know at least one person at the party that will vouch for them in terms of character. As each guest confirms, the core member informs the point person who accepts the invitation, or who places it on hold until more people accept invitations to keep the numbers evened out. (This works better when all of the original core members are of the same gender, as it is easier to balance the numbers and the guests). In the event, that a person’s guest backs out of coming at the last minute, the core member is also not permitted to attend the singles party, all in order to keep the numbers fairly balanced. The result? We were a group of about 20 guys that organized a singles party with about 20 girls as guests. No one left the party early because the ratio of men and women were about equal, and it was a safe way to meet new people, because everyone there was part of a strict invitation list. Also, the nature of it being an openly announced singles party, and the process and efforts made to keep the numbers balanced, created anticipation in the guests attending. The plan was to hold a singles party like that once a month, but after a couple of months, there simply wasn’t any motivation. At that point, many of the original party founders had started dating and getting into relationships with people that they had met through the first two parties. How’s that for success? So if you and your friends are planning an anti-V-Day party, or if you and your 5 best friends of the same gender were planning on drowning your sorrows that weekend, perhaps you might all put your own egos on the shelf for one night, and try hosting a singles party with the aim of setting up one of your friends with someone that you couldn’t date. Helping others find love helps them to help you to find love. To learn more about how to manage your social circles, please check out: HOW TO BUILD A SOCIAL CIRCLE NETWORK
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Creating More Luck For Love: Manifesting Destiny
By Frank Kermit Check out the Emotional Needs Analysis Mastery System When it comes to having luck in life, some people really are lucky in love. These individuals tend to be attracted to people who are also attracted to them. These individuals do not appear to have to "work" to find love; love finds them. These individuals just happen to be at the right place, right time, and meet the right people for things to, well, just happen. These individuals can afford to focus on other areas of their lives and when the time is right, love will seem to magically appear. However, what does a person do, when that person does not happen to be one of these individuals who are lucky in love? If you are someone that is simply not lucky in love, chances are you cannot leave your love life up to chance and must take matters into your own hands. When you are left wanting for love in your life, doing nothing tends to be the worst thing you can do. In any area of life that you are unsatisfied with, being proactive is often the better option, than waiting idly for things to change on its own. This may mean you will have to try new experiences that could push you out of your comfort zone, but that is a reasonable trade off given everything you have to gain (i.e. all the potential new love, affection, dates and relationships you desire but do not yet have in your life). One of the ways to increase your luck for love is solid life planning. This means thinking long and hard about what your long term and short term life goals are, figuring out where you meaningfully want to end up, and then working backwards on the timeline of your life right back to the present day. Once you know where you want to end up, and have more than just a passing idea of what lifestyle you want day-to-day, you will give yourself the road map necessary to follow through and build your ideal love life in a more realistic fashion. Start out by asking yourself where you see yourself in 10-15 years from now. If you already have kids, what are your plans for them? If you do not yet have kids, what are your intentions? Career wise; are you going for further training? Are you living in the big city, or small town? What physical condition are you in and what health challenges are you likely facing based on your family history and personal health practices? How this works is that with each goal you are setting, there is going to be a time or criteria requirement that you do not control. For example, if you want a certain career, you may have to embark on a specific number of years in education and work experience. If you want to have a certain number of children there are considerations about how many years apart your children are going to be. Then you must go back and factor in any conflicts in your timeline because you may not be able to complete that particular PhD at the same time as backpacking overseas, while raising your family, on the income you are set to make at that time. How does all this factor into your love life? When you know exactly what you want out of life, where you want to be, and how you want to end up living, it will help you define where you can go to meet people that likely want the same things you want, who have compatible goals and values that you have. For example, if you know that you want to live an off-the-grid lifestyle, you can direct yourself to events, meet ups, educational symposiums and social gathers of like minded people and increase your chances of finding a love partner that wants to commit to a relationship with such a common principle-based foundation. We may not be able to predict the future, or control life circumstances, but we most certainly can influence our fortunes by knowing ourselves and planning ahead as much as possible, to get a little luckier. Frank Kermit This is based on my coaching workbooks I'm A Man, That's My Job and I'm A Woman, It's My Time. Stop Wasting Time: The Resolution For Singles in the New Year By Frank Kermit Some people find themselves starting the New Year as a single person. For those that are happy being single, the New Year is getting off to a great start. However, if someone is not happy with being single, and wants to make sure to be in a relationship by the time New Year's Eve comes around again, it is important to make some changes. If there was one area that single people must make changes to, in order to ensure their best chances at no longer being single, it can be summed up in 3 simple words: Stop-Wasting-Time. Stop Wasting Time means that you realize that your "time" is a resource of a very limited supply. You cannot get back any time that you already spent. All you can do is focus on the time you have left. When it comes to the desire to no longer be single, how you spend your time is very important. There are certain things you must devote time too. These include your set obligations, your family responsibilities, your work, your education, your health but when all of that is done, then you may have time left over to focus on other things. That time left over is the time you need to devote to making changes in your life to break the repeating behavior patterns that have thus far kept you single. If you are not using that time wisely, you could be wasting it. For example, you have decided that this was the year you were going to find new love, and build a serious relationship with him or her, and the next thing you know, you get contacted by one of your ex lovers who happens to be lonely and wants to enjoy your company again. If you keep hanging out with ex lovers just to avoid feeling lonely, you are wasting your time. Use that evening to go out some place to potentially meet someone new. If you are casually dating someone currently and it appears that there is little chance of it turning into a serious commitment, you might be wasting your time. Talk to your partner about what would have to happen to for such a commitment to occur. If your partner cannot give you a direct and crystal clear answer, you are wasting your time with that person. Use that time to go to workshops to develop your social or conversational skills. If you have hobbies which are enjoyable pastimes (stamps, genealogy, videogames) but do not allow for you to interact with new people in real life social settings where you can explore a potential romance, you are wasting your time. Use that time to take up a new activity like a dance class where you must interact with others and potentially find a connection. Even chilling out with your friends can end up being a huge waste of time. Unless your friends are able to directly introduce you to someone new they brought to the social circle, hanging out with the same groups of people that do not provide you with your own chance of love is a time waster. This also includes that friend of yours that you are in love with, and continue to ask out, but rejects you again and again. Spending time with someone that continually rejects to attempt to take your friendship to the next level is wasting your time. Use that time to meet up with new social circles that can meet your needs better. Some people struggle with this because they carry a notion that they should not have to put in so much effort to connect with a new love. They feel that it should just happen when the timing is right, and would rather wait for love to come to them. For some people, this has worked because they are naturally able to draw such opportunities to them. However, for the rest of us who were not naturally able to draw it to us, it is time to put in the work. Next New Year's Eve is just about 11 months away. You can either wait to see if you will be alone again, or you can choose to take action and increase your chances to have someone to start next year with a meaningful kiss. It's your time Click the links to visit my coaching workbooks: I'm A Man, That's My Job and I'm A Woman, It's My Time. Frank Kermit Heavy Hearted Holidays
By Frank Kermit The holidays come with wonderful expectations of joyous celebrations, family gatherings, and time spent reconnecting with loved ones. Images of happy times celebrating love surround us in holidays sales announcements and media. However, there is a side of the holidays that doesn't always get the attention it merits. Truth be told, it is the one time of the year, which I keep my availability to clients on a 24/7 basis, because for a significant number of people, the holiday season is not about joy, but a melancholy reminder of loneliness and loss. Spending my holidays consoling the lonely and broken hearted, gives me an incredible sense of gratitude for my own wife and son, and cherishing the fact I can share my non-working hours with them. Right now, some people are going into the holidays newly single from of a divorce they did not see coming, and will experience their first holiday away from their own children. Yet others will realize they are alone again for the holidays, because they forgot to make finding someone special to share it with a priority earlier in the year. There are also those experiencing the new normal of entering the holiday season with one less significant person in their lives due to death. Whether widowed, experiencing the passing of a family member, or grieving the loss of a friend (or job, or even good health for that matter) sometimes the holiday season becomes a crossroads of reflection, and the memories of some missing element from our lives, consume our thoughts. Some will choose to stay in, not take part in rambunctious merry making, and instead enjoy some quiet time nursing their sorrow. Some people use the holidays as a time to make a life plan to restructure their journey and set goals. Then there are those who feel so overwhelmed by it all, they unfortunately turn to self-destructive behavior patterns. In the holiday spirit, I implore everyone reading this to keep in mind that each of us copes with loss and loneliness differently and to be supportive of one another. You do not have to agree with how someone copes. What you need to evoke within yourself is your sense of compassion. Compassion is one of the most powerful comforting gifts human beings have to offer and exemplifies some of the best in humanity. In fact, it is very possible to equate that compassion IS the holiday spirit we were meant to indulge in at this time. So if you are struggling to let your heavy-hearted holiday be a happy one, at the very least, aim to keep yourself alive and healthy through it. I wish you all peace and healing at this time, whatever you celebrate, and whoever you are. As long as there are individuals in the world who share compassion, no one is ever truly alone. Frank Kermit Thank You Holiday Workers
By Frank Kermit The holidays tend to conger up picturesque images of people gathering together, leaving no one out or left behind. At the best of times, this can be true for a number of families. However, each year there are families that are incomplete at gatherings because while some people get the time off from work or duty, there are others that are required to keep at it during the holidays in order to keep the systems running for the rest of the people. So that this time, I want to publicly reach out to the number of people that do not get time off for the holidays to be with their families and friends. No words can truly acknowledge their sacrifices, but if enough people who are off, can take just a moment to remember those who work so that others do not have too, it can make your own holiday just that much more to appreciate. Take a moment to think about all the people who keep us safe. From military personal, to police officers, fire fighters, coast guard, all the way to the security guards putting in 12 hour shifts overnight, as well as the doctors, nurses, paramedics and other hospital staff that allow for the rest of us to have a little merriment. Take a moment to think about all the people that keep our systems running like the people who keep our water and sewage systems in check, electricity and other support technicians, call centre workers, gas station attendants, social care caregivers, home care workers, public transportation drivers and staff, tow truck drivers and dispatchers, the licensed taxi drivers keeping drunk drivers off the roads, animal rescue and guardians, news related personnel, the transport drivers whose deliveries of goods we all depend on, and the many other people taken for granted at this time of year. Take a moment to think about all the people who work retail jobs, restaurants, hotel, hospitality and catering staff, service orientated industries, professional sport athletes and their support service teams, and entertainers, who work harder this time of year, because more demand is put on them, with little-to-no thanks. Take a moment to think about all the people who work suicide hotlines and other emotional support ventures, and those who volunteer to help people less fortunate who spend their time over the holidays with the lonely and the destitute. Take a moment to think about all the people who work the holidays that I omitted from this list and thank them too. Take a moment, and just be thankful. With the holidays upon us, office holiday parties are underway. It is a time to be a little more social with the people you work with, in an atmosphere that is a little less work intensive. It can be a time to get to know your co-workers more personally, and employees at all levels of the organization can come together to share a little cheer. And what could be wrong with that? For the most part, it is a great idea. Some companies offer employees the chance to enjoy an afternoon off of work to intermingle during work hours (usually on work premises). Other companies want all employees to return to the job site in the evening, or they reserve a space at a local restaurant or other such venue. It is a nice gesture on behalf of the employer. However, whether you are single, dating someone very new, or in a serious relationship there are certain holiday office part etiquettes to adhere to. They all revolve around one key principle: You Are Still At Work. For everyone: Do not get drunk. Just because it is an open bar does not mean you have an excuse to over-indulge. “Free” does not mean drinking to the point that you cannot walk straight. Know your limit, or just refuse to drink alcohol. You will have to work with these people the rest of the year. An embarrassing drunken incident could be held against you. With that said about alcohol, keep in mind that it is the season for colds and infections. Keep that in mind if you are taking an anti-biotic or other medication. Some medications react with alcohol. Remember you are still at work. Leaving early is OK. If the holiday office party is taking place outside of normal work hours, it is OK to leave early. Not everyone has the same resources available, and if you are dependent on public transit, or you can only afford your babysitter for so long, or if you simply are not the kind of person that celebrates the holidays and want to leave before things get too uncomfortable for you, there is nothing wrong with excusing yourself early. Although some employers may push for you to stay out later than you can, it is up to you to do what is best for you and find a balance between your obligations to your employers and having your other needs met. For singles: Do not look at a holiday office party as an opportunity to get closer to someone that you are interested in at the office. An office holiday party is not a time to make a pass at anyone, nor should you aim to have a make out session in the corner at last call. This is not just another night out with your friends. Remember you are still at work Do not dress up like you are trying to score at a club. You are not there to bring in the New Year in with a kiss with one of your co-workers. Dress like you would for the office, or just a step above. This is not time to highlight your sex appeal. Remember you are still at work. For those just starting to date someone new: If you have just started to date someone new during, or right before, the holidays, it is not a good idea to bring your newest partner to any office holiday parties. The newer you are as a couple, the less ideal it is to bring your new partner to holiday office parties. You really may not be able to predict how your date will interact and react to your co-workers. Your co-workers may share information about you to your date that you have not yet shared which could make for an uncomfortable situation. Depending how newly you have started dating, your date could end up flirting with and going home with one of your co-workers (I have heard stories about it happening in my coaching practice). Keep this separate. Do not bring a new date just to show off to your co-workers, as this isn’t a juvenile social contest. Remember you are still at work. For those in serious relationships: Some offices try to involve the long-term life partners and spouses to office parties for various reasons (some of which may be to try to dissuade employees from fraternizing in ways that would be too inappropriate for the work place). If your office party is inviting partners and spouses, make sure that you and your partner are on the same page. If there is a co-worker that is toxic, make sure your spouse knows who it is, so that the toxic co-worker does not try to get information from your spouse to use against you. If there is a co-worker that has made advances towards you that you have rejected, talk to your spouse ahead of time to make sure you both can handle any potential awkwardness with maturity. Depending on the career, how a spouse can support a person’s career social environment could be a major factor in the motivation to get into a serious relationship. Office holiday parties are a good example of why you both need to be on the same page. Remember you are still at work. At best, a holiday office party can be a good memory of sharing joy with the people you work with. If you can’t manage that, at least make it something memorable enough for the right reasons. If you can’t manage that, then attempt to avoid making it memorable for all the wrong reasons. If you can’t manage that, you might be exploring your options in the New Year while on employment insurance. Happy Holidays! Remember you are still at work. Frank Kermit Let the Holiday Headaches Begin!
By Frank Kermit You have been dating your new partner for a few weeks now, and your timeline has stumbled upon the holiday season. The holiday season means parties. Family parties, company parties, client-related parties, friends-traveling into town for dinner parties…should you bring your new relationship partner with you? Or should you go solo and wait until next year? The answer is: It Depends. The criteria you need to consider before you bring your new partner to meet your friends, co-workers and especially your family at a function is if you are ready to go public with the nature of your relationship. That’s it. If you are not prepared to introduce your partner as “your partner”, you do not bring your partner along. And before the label-haters (those people that can not stand putting a label on their romantic exchanges) start gunning down my throat, consider this: It will be easier on you, your partner, and everyone that your partner will be introduced too. If you are not going to introduce your partner as your actual partner, then do not bring him or her. The worst thing you can do is to bring your partner to a function and introduce your partner to everyone there as your “friend”. First of all, introducing your partner as “your friend” makes it awkward for everyone. You are not fooling anyone. People will make three assumptions: (1) you are dating but do not want to admit it because there is something wrong with your relationship, (2) one of you wants to date the other but the other is not interested enough, or (3) you are both just pathetic because you would rather hang out with a platonic friend instead of making the effort to actually find your own legitimate partner. Which would you prefer? Personally, I have been in all three situations, and I can tell you from experience that none of them make you feel good at the end of the night. One of the stories I often hear during my coaching is about the person who brings a “friend” they are interested in to a function, like a work party, and end up having to bite their tongues when co-workers start to flirt, hit on and aggressively try to attract “the friend”. After all, if you aren’t willing to admit that you are more than “just friends” (or that you would want to be), then your “friend” is fair game. Do not put the focus of your affection into a potentially compromising social position. If you are still at the point of having to introduce your partner as “your friend” at any functions, then do everyone a favor: Wait until next year, and bring your partner along to the future holiday functions if you are still together, and publicly open as a couple. Frank Kermit It's "Time" For The Holidays:
Broke For The Holidays? Give The Gift of Time By Frank Kermit One of the reasons that people site as legitimate cause to stay out of dating going into the holidays is the awkwardness of buying a holiday gift for someone that you just started seeing. Some people even site that the enormous cost of a gift for a significant other is enough to push off any potential new partner until after the start of the New Year. The presupposition of course is that a gift for someone you are dating must be expensive. Although individuals may feel such a pressure, and some new partners even communicate having this expectation, there is no written rule that a holiday gift for a new partner (or a more established partner) need be an expensive endeavor. In fact, whether new relationships or ongoing long-term relationships, some of the best gift ideas are centered on sentiment, not expense. Your time is the greatest gift you can offer someone you love. Forget expensive toiletries, accessories or knickknacks. Offer a home made coupon for one night in, heated left over's, watching a movie, and a relaxing foot massage. If you find someone that appreciates that gift as much as you appreciate giving it, you might also be able to figure out that you have a keeper. The idea of your Time being possibly the greatest gift for the holidays applies to all relationships, not just the romantic ones. When it comes to kids, expensive toys can be nice and a novelty. However, with a little imagination, sometimes the box it came in turns out to be more fun. Grab some crayons, markers, modeling clay (yes, that means you pull yourself from the computer, phone or broadcast episode of whatever), and let those kids teach you the magic of turning an empty box into a castle-pirate-ship-school-bus-that-flies-through-outer-space. Younger kids may not fully remember everything you did or said at the time, but on some level, they might just remember how you made the kids feel. On a more serious note, if you share custody of your kids, give some thought about arranging for your kids to spend time with both parents so that your kids can enjoy some family time with both of you without having to be split. This may not always be possible, depending on the circumstances of the break up. However uneasy it may be for one, or both parents, toughing it out for just a little bit of time, even just a couple of hours, can mean the world to a child especially if your kids are really hurting from the split this holiday season. Of course, this is taking into account that your situation may not make this possible for a variety of reasons; but if you do have the possibility to make something like this happen without ending up fighting in front of the kids, you might think about taking the opportunity. Sometimes the time you can gift isn't about you spending time with the recipient of your gift, but to allow the recipient to be able to spend time with someone else. A home made babysitting voucher to watch the kids to give parents some time for a break and a date-night can be more welcomed than any popular item on sale at the shopping mall. Do you know someone that is working through most of the holidays, or stuck in a hospital room, someone in mourning, or living in a special care facility? A trip to spend enough time to have a cup of coffee and catch up on conversation can warm hearts: yours and the person you are giving some time too. It is easy to get caught up in the gift-frenzy of the holidays. It is also easy to feel that you might be letting some people down if your budget it tight and couldn't afford the nicer items on everyone's gift list. Time is a gift that most people often overlook as being a valuable gift, until one day they wake up and realize there isn't any left. Make the most of your time and make the most of your holidays. Frank Kermit Gift Giving Guide
For The Stages of Dating By Frank Kermit The holiday season tends to also be a time of gift giving for many cultures. Shopping for just the perfect gift for your loved ones can be challenging enough. However, what if the person you are shopping for is someone that you just started dating? Perhaps someone you are dating casually and have no plans of introducing the new love at a holiday function. Perhaps it is someone you are dating in secret without any plans for it to last beyond a few weeks. Perhaps you had a weekend fling with someone during the year, and although nothing serious came of it, you remember that person fondly. Are there appropriate gifts for such people? There is also the dreaded circumstance of wanting to get a gift for an ex of yours, with whom you have remained friends with, or at least are civil with, for the sake of co-parenting or maintaining a social circle. Gifting has the potential to be as complicated as the people and relationships we have with them. So to make your holiday gift giving a little easier, here are some tips. Dating someone regularly, where you see a potential future, requires some thought and planning. Since this is the person you will likely bring to your holiday parties as your partner, choose a gift that serves two purposes. First, it should be a gift that shows you have been listening and paying attention to what your partner has been saying. Second, it would be a good idea (but not necessary) to get a gift that your partner can wear when presented to your family and friends. For example, if your partner has an affinity for a particular animal, a pendant, broach, or cufflinks related to that animal that your partner could wear when meeting your friends and family may be a good gift. It makes for a great conversation piece. With that in mind, it could also time to go all the way with an engagement ring (after all, it ‘tis the season). Dating someone casually, or dating in secret where you will not be presenting him or her to family and friends, calls for a more social gift. A gift certificate to outings that you both like to frequent usually works well for these relations. If the two of you spend time together watching movies, then movie gift certificates or online movies to watch at home, are fine choices. If you are looking for a gift idea for someone that you only shared a short-term dalliance with, keep the gift inexpensive and simple. A dollar store greeting card is more than enough. (I discourage e-cards, because they often end up in spam folders). Holiday cards are also great gifts for the ex because although it is a nice gesture, it is nothing so grand that might wrongly communicate a desire to reconcile. In both cases where you are no longer involved with a person, but still want to share a wish of peace, a standard greeting card is more than perfect. It really is the thought that counts. Just do not over think it. Getting into brand new relationships is tricky enough, but when new relationships start around the holidays, it can be even trickier. In fact, there are even people who boycott dating just before or during the holiday season because they do not want to deal with extra challenges. One of the challenges that new relationships face during the holiday season is trying to figure out how appropriate it is to attend a holiday gathering, be it an office work party, or a holiday family dinner. It is not always easy to navigate whether or not you need to invite your new relationship partner. Bringing a new partner to a holiday gathering of any kind is an outward sign to everyone around you that your relationship (no matter just how new it is) is getting more serious. That will be the automatic assumption for most people. Where this may get unpleasant is when one partner in the new relationship is looking forward to sharing the holiday gatherings together, and the other partner feels that it may be too soon to attend such events as a couple. Although it is good to know exactly where each of you stands, especially if you both have different views of your status, it can also be disappointing to find out that you and your partner do not seem to agree on the level of commitment that exists. As a coach, I have been asked if it is wise to bring a new partner to a holiday gathering and to introduce your new partner as -just a friend-. I always advise against this. If you are going to introduce your new partner as just a friend, one of two things is likely to happen. The first is that people may assume that you are actually involved and wonder what must be wrong with the two of you for not admitting it (perhaps assuming that your partner is already married and cheating?). The second is that those people who actually believe the two of you are -just friends- may unknowingly make a pass at your partner, in your presence, because they assume that as -just friends-, your companion must be single. After all, if your companion weren’t single, that person would be out with a significant other, and not hanging with another friend at a holiday gathering. When trying to resolve this dating dilemma, the issue is not actually how long you have been dating, but rather the level of commitment of your relationship. It does not matter if you only started dating two weeks prior to the holidays, two months prior to the holidays or have had been seeing each other for two years prior to this holiday season. How long you have been involved is not a deciding factor when choosing to bring your partner to a holiday gathering. It has everything to do with how serious your commitment is to one another and if you are intending to build a future together. A couple that has only been dating for two weeks but is already secure in the idea of getting married and growing old together should attend holiday functions as a couple. A couple that has been seeing each other dating casually for over a year with zero intention of making any sort of long term commitment should not involve one another into holiday gathers. If either of the partners in this new relationship is not fully prepared to accept how attending holiday functions together will be interpreted by family, co-workers and friends as a sign of a more serious commitment, then the ethical choice is not to attend them together, until such a time as you get more serious. Frank Kermit |
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