Couples often like to say that their New Year's Eve plans are really boring: a quiet dinner for two, or a movie night with the kids. When you're single, boring doesn't feel like an option. Especially if you're looking for love, watching Netflix in your pajamas feels like a serious negation of the most critical single-person obligation: Getting out there.

I wrote about the pressure single people feel to be fabulous in my book, It’s Not You: 27 (Wrong) Reasons You’re Single. Even for people who are mostly........

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