The cold winter season on a college campus calls for cuffing season. Cuffing Season according to Urban Dictionary is "During the Fall and Winter months people who would normally rather be single or promiscuous find themselves along with the rest of the world desiring to be "Cuffed" or tied down by a serious relationship. The cold weather and prolonged indoor activity causes singles to become lonely and desperate to be cuffed."
As students on campus sit around watching more and more of their friends jump into relationships as the cold ten degree days lag on and on. Many more people are dying to be in a relationship. They want someone to snuggle up close to, someone to watch movies with, and of course, someone to go get food with. All single people begin to look around and realize that they are surrounded by more and more couples. Their friends are off spending the night at their boyfriend's place, instead of having their regular girls night. You're laying in your bed for the 5th night in arrow, alone binge watching The Office for the 17th time because you're too lazy to put on seven layers of clothing to go out.
This begins the chain reaction of people wanting what they just can't have. Left and right single people jump into relationships for several wrong reasons. These relationships ultimately lead to heartbreak because it was founded on the basis of trying to be apart of "the crowd". Cuffing season is real because naturally, we all want what we can't have. In retrospect, why would we want a relationship for all of the wrong reasons, to begin with, than waiting it out till the end of winter?
I had someone turn to me yesterday and say "I want to be with someone who can be fed and watered once a month, essentially low maintenance. I'm just trying to be apart of the crowd." It is not just one person that is saying these things. We have hit this point where we want to belong so bad that we will take anyone that will have us.
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