{"id":123506,"date":"2020-02-14T12:26:16","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T17:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/why-im-totally-ok-with-being-alone-this-valentines-day-seriously\/"},"modified":"2020-02-14T12:26:16","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T17:26:16","slug":"why-im-totally-ok-with-being-alone-this-valentines-day-seriously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/why-im-totally-ok-with-being-alone-this-valentines-day-seriously\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I\u2019m totally OK with being alone this Valentine\u2019s Day (Seriously!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Why I\u2019m totally OK with being alone this Valentine\u2019s Day (Seriously!)<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/2020\/02\/shutterstock_1617190921-670x436.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"670\" height=\"436\" srcset=\"https:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/2020\/02\/shutterstock_1617190921-670x436.jpg 670w, https:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/2020\/02\/shutterstock_1617190921-400x260.jpg 400w, https:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/2020\/02\/shutterstock_1617190921-105x68.jpg 105w, https:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/2020\/02\/shutterstock_1617190921.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\"><\/p>\n<p>Have you seen the 1998 movie <em>Elizabeth<\/em>, starring Cate Blanchett? It ends with Queen Elizabeth I realizing that all <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">men<\/a> are either <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> or liars, then breaking up with her boyfriend and declaring herself a virgin. She ends up with full ownership over her body and, like, England.<\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;ll circle back to that. First, let&rsquo;s revisit a time when I was also a virgin.<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s Valentine&rsquo;s Day, 2004. I haven&rsquo;t yet lost my virginity in the bathroom of a roller-skating rink. I haven&rsquo;t yet broken up with my first boyfriend, after five days of closed mouth kissing, in the middle of a swim meet. I haven&rsquo;t yet come out to my friends, my family, my <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">girlfriend<\/a>; haven&rsquo;t yet been scorned, spat on. I&rsquo;ll spend this Valentine&rsquo;s Day at swim practice.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>I often picture myself with another <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">man<\/a>. We&rsquo;re always lying down and looking at the stars in that mountain field that Julie Andrews dances in at the beginning of <em>The Sound of Music<\/em>. He&rsquo;s always blue-eyed, brown-haired, freshly back from the ocean. The ocean is where his wife lives. He&rsquo;s Prince Eric from <em>The Little Mermaid<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I never will meet a <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">guy<\/a> quite like Prince Eric, but I will cycle through every openly <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> kid at my high school. I&rsquo;ll even date a <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">guy<\/a> who gets an &lsquo;E&rsquo; in biology and thinks <em>Pride &amp; Prejudice<\/em> is a law firm. He&rsquo;ll break up with me after I accidentally swerve our car into an oncoming van. I&rsquo;ll think of him every day for the rest of my life. Just kidding. I&rsquo;ll hate him.<\/p>\n<p>Cut to: Valentine&rsquo;s Day, 2008. A full-blown alcoholic now (read more about that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.queerty.com\/bottoming-many-times-made-realize-im-alcoholic-20191130\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HERE<\/a>), I only dream of Prince Eric when I&rsquo;m hammered. Sometimes I just spend entire nights crying, wondering why I can&rsquo;t at least have Aladdin. As for this Valentine&rsquo;s Day, I spend it drunkenly freeing the mice from my college biology lab. I watch them happily sniff each other; I am their savior. I kiss one, thinking it might transform into a <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">man<\/a> and date me. It gives me pneumonia.<\/p>\n<p>Valentine&rsquo;s Day, 2016. I strain to see Prince Eric in the <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">man<\/a> I&rsquo;m living with. He&rsquo;s a closeted Mormon alcoholic who gets a <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">girl<\/a> pregnant after we first have <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/couples\/?mp_code=akftr\">sex<\/a> just to convince people he&rsquo;s heterosexual. He shows his love for me by playing Radiohead songs on the piano and getting angry every time I threaten to move out. We <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=grq0&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">live<\/a> in Norfolk, Virginia.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>I will ultimately come to hate him. I&rsquo;ll direct a play&ndash;despite having no directing experience&ndash;just to avoid him. I&rsquo;ll drink every morning, every night. I&rsquo;ll drink myself out of a job. I&rsquo;ll stop sometimes to remember those first lingering glances over Tecates, those long <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=grq0&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">chats<\/a> about <em>The Purple Rose of Cairo<\/em>. Then I&rsquo;ll black out.<\/p>\n<p>The first time I publicly tell him I love him, he&rsquo;ll say, &ldquo;I love you too, <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">man<\/a>.&rdquo; Then he&rsquo;ll pat me on the shoulder and stumble inside to kiss a <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">girl<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In private, he&rsquo;ll tell me he needs me and I&rsquo;ll believe him.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Valentine&rsquo;s Day, 2019. I&rsquo;ve escaped to New York. I&rsquo;ve quit drinking and have been celibate for a year&ndash;at first voluntarily, then involuntarily (read about more about that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.queerty.com\/just-sober-sex-first-time-since-high-school-kinda-awkward-20200118\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HERE<\/a>). Sobriety, I&rsquo;ve found, is anathema to many queer <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">men<\/a> in New York. Still, though, I dream of Eric.<\/p>\n<p>After all, I&rsquo;ve come all this way, defied the odds, defeated my demons; surely I can find the love of my life now!<\/p>\n<p>But I will not. Not yet. I will be ghosted, dumped, used, rejected. I&rsquo;ll imagine gorgeous, Bong Joon-Ho-directed futures starring <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">men<\/a> I&rsquo;ll never see again.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Let&rsquo;s jump once more&ndash;to Valentine&rsquo;s Day, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;ve just watched <em>Elizabeth<\/em> while adult-coloring. I wanted something pretty and British to look at every time I finished coloring a cow brown, but suddenly, I found myself glued to the screen, neglecting the melting crayon in my hand. After all, here was a <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">woman<\/a> who&rsquo;d chosen&ndash;perhaps not willfully, but proudly&ndash;to <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=grq0&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">live<\/a> a life of integrity. She&rsquo;d sworn never again to cloud her judgment with a love unworthy of her.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I&rsquo;m no queen&ndash;just a princess&ndash;but I&rsquo;ve got stuff going on. I&rsquo;ll spend this Valentine&rsquo;s Day doing volunteer work at SAGE, a center for LGBTQ seniors, just like I do every Friday afternoon. Maybe I&rsquo;ll also finish a short story, or jump in on an improv show, or push myself a bit at the gym. Or maybe I&rsquo;ll just lie back and let my wounds heal. If there&rsquo;s one thing I&rsquo;ve learned, after all these depressing Valentine&rsquo;s Days, it&rsquo;s that sometimes it&rsquo;s better to be alone.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><strong>Evan Lambert is a Staff Writer for <a href=\"http:\/\/Topix.com\" class=\"autohyperlink\">Topix.com<\/a>. His Twitter handle is <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/evlams?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@evlams<\/a>, and he&rsquo;ll start tweeting again if, like, five people follow him after this.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/queerty2?a=KV7uSR4-ECQ:ICoQekT5g8k:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/queerty2?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/queerty2?a=KV7uSR4-ECQ:ICoQekT5g8k:dnMXMwOfBR0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/queerty2?d=dnMXMwOfBR0\" border=\"0\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.queerty.com\/im-totally-ok-alone-valentines-day-seriously-20200214?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+queerty2+%28Queerty%29\" class=\"autohyperlink\">www.queerty.com\/im-totally-ok-alone-valentines-day-seriously-20200214?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+queerty2+%28Queerty%29<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why I\u2019m totally OK with being alone this Valentine\u2019s Day (Seriously!) Have you seen the 1998 movie Elizabeth, starring Cate Blanchett? It ends with Queen Elizabeth I realizing that all <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">men<\/a> are either <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> or liars, then breaking up with her boyfriend and declaring herself a virgin. She ends up with full ownership over her &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/why-im-totally-ok-with-being-alone-this-valentines-day-seriously\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why I\u2019m totally OK with being alone this Valentine\u2019s Day (Seriously!)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Why I\u2019m totally OK with being alone this Valentine\u2019s Day (Seriously!) - GAYFRIENDSCHAT.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/why-im-totally-ok-with-being-alone-this-valentines-day-seriously\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Why I\u2019m totally OK with being alone this Valentine\u2019s Day (Seriously!) - GAYFRIENDSCHAT.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Why I\u2019m totally OK with being alone this Valentine\u2019s Day (Seriously!) 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