The holiday season isn’t the best time for single people. Not if you’re spending most of it dodging why-are-you-still-singles and you-should-meet-Tito-Boyet’s-son-he’s-an-accountants from your nosy titas. Not if you’re the third—or seventh—wheel at Christmas dinners. Most of all, not if you’ll be left all alone while your coupled friends do their couple-y Christmas things and give each other their couple-y presents.

You shouldn’t feel too bad. It’s just half a month’s worth of seasonal affective loneliness. It’s all an illusion—a sparkly, tinsel-framed mist of commercially-induced joy. You don’t have to be sad. Relationships are hard work. Sometimes, they’re even harder than being alone—any time of the year.

So here, we got you 8 beautiful movies that shatter the illusion. Love isn’t all that. Say no to #FOMO!

Also, Merry Christmas!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQoH1IGRB3w

Timing is everything. Seriously.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yPzc_REvhU

This isn’t very original, but: oh, it’s sad to belong to someone else when the right one comes along.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXiRZhDEo8A

Where’s the tissue? Get the tissue!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aILx69WrRhQ

People are fickle. Love is fickle. Life is fickle. What are we doing here? What is the meaning of life?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYAS92XPvIM

Being lost isn’t so bad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Tz6KgPfeuk

“In love you can't bring on a substitute.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tU2QhICrdgY

Chances are, you won’t find what you’re looking for.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2INylnfMCU

Life is futile. Love isn’t.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1Y1VCFo5Gw

Because most of the time, fantasy is better than real life.

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P.S. You'll be fine.