Cuffing Season Awareness
Welcome to Your Love Breakthrough! Get Real. Love.
In this edition: Cuffing Season Awareness
Perspective – What Cuffing Season Means.
Practical Tactics – Capturing Cuffing Season for Yourself.
It's all about the Cuffing Context
Perspective– What Cuffing Season Means.
If “Cuffing Season” is a new term for you, no, it’s not Fifty Shades of Gray-adjacent. It refers to a cold-weather phenomenon that starts in October.
Frosty air isolates, heightens lonely feelings. Our urges for a snuggle-buddy naturally burgeon. Many uncoupled folks find a partner to stick with--for a while. But when ice melts in March, some hearts grow cold. Hand cuffs often slip off, partners part ways.
For others, it’s an initiation into a life-long romance.
People who experience these more intense feelings during Cuffing Season often gravitate toward online dating.
Case in point: I met a couple who had each been online for a while with no success and both of them had gotten discouraged and gave up. But when the holidays rolled around, they each took advantage of a free trial offered by a niche site—out of pure loneliness and a feeling of "Why not?". Neither had local family or plans. And so they met for coffee. That coffee date turned into a “cuffing” partnership that outlasted the chilly season and blossomed into a marriage.
Practical Tactics
Capturing Cuffing Season for Yourself.
If you are feeling loneliness and longing, consider this seasonal curiosity as a potential opportunity.
Reflect about what you ideally want and what you are open to. Know that connecting with someone who isn’t looking for something life-long is more likely to end come springtime. Are you open to just one-date wonders (or some-date wonders)? Committed short-term? Long-term only?
Write in your online dating profile what you are open to and what you are ultimately looking for.
Make meeting new prospects a winter adventure.
Whether you get “cuffed” or not, be “cuffed” to feeling hope that the right One will enter your life at the right time.
Take small steps toward searching for that special person.
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