The hopeless feeling of being single during the holidays. Literally the worst feeling in the whole world when your near family and they pop the question, “Seeing anybody yet?”

Here is your long, drawn out, but awesome answer you start to think in your head at the very moment…“Yes. I am still single. Correction, I am happily single. I do not have the time, nor the energy to focus on somebody else life, because I am trying to be successful and finish a degree! Would it be nice to have the support of somebody? Yes. Do I want anybody right now? No. Listen, I can barely share a pizza.”

While you are conjuring up an answer in your head, your family is wondering if you had a stroke because you are in your brain trying to find an appropriate answer. You realize this moment is getting way more awkward than usual, and just answer with a simple, “No.”

It seems that only your hypothetical Aunt that parties and drinks all the time only approves by saying, “Honey, stick to yourself, nobody is worth it right now.” Your Mother may sigh, and your younger sibling or cousin will look more successful because they have a boo and you do not. "Maybe next year," they say to you and pat you on the back like it is a bad thing to be happily alone.

Whether you want to be single or not. It still sucks to be in that situation every holiday. You could ramble on with your answer, or you could be confident about your decisions on being awesome and single. I noticed this weird cycle with a lot of my single friends out there.

So grab your best friend and a margarita and raise a toast to all of us single people out there during the holidays!