The holidays can magnify loneliness, comparison, and pressure—especially if you’re single. Between family gatherings and social expectations, it’s easy to question your worth or timeline. This reflection offers compassionate reminders to help you hold grief and joy at the same time, release shame around desiring partnership, interrupt self-criticism, and stay grounded in your inherent worth. You are not behind, broken, or unlovable—you’re human, and you’re allowed to want mor