At the Plush and Love Fair #Neza2025, exhibitors celebrate love and friendship. Social media intensifies the pressure surrounding Valentine's Day, turning it into a date filled with expectations and obligatory gifts.
Kiana Shelton, a therapist at Mindpath Health in Texas, advises considering the possibility of ending a relationship after Valentine's Day to clarify emotions once the excitement of the month has passed. According to Shelton, it is essential to express feelings without feeling the pressure to act around that date.
Relationship experts reveal that February is the month with the most breakups. Although February 14 celebrates Love and Friendship, this time also generates doubts and tensions related to social pressure, gifts, and goals set at the beginning of the year.
Dr. Morgan Cope, a psychologist at Centre College in Kentucky specializing in interpersonal and romantic relationships, highlights the adverse feelings experienced by couples before Valentine's Day. Cope emphasizes the importance of not forcing an uncomfortable situation, such as choosing a gift or being intimate with someone one does not wish to be with.
Ending a relationship is always an emotionally complex process, and February can make it difficult to start a new relationship or go through a separation. Therefore, sometimes it is recommended to make decisive decisions and not postpone them.
