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Hey there, folks.

It is December 31st, New Year's Eve.

And don't worry, if you plan on being alone tonight, you won't be alone.

Welcome to this episode of Amy and T.J. Robs.

Is this one of those things where it feels like you feel

obligated or you feel like a down or a loser or you have FOMO because you don't have some

big party to go to on New Year's Eve? It's supposed to be a big celebratory night for everybody.

Yeah, I think that that's a reasonable and probably shared experience by a lot of folks.

You feel pressure to have fun.

You feel pressure to be social.

You feel pressure to have the best night of your life.

Yeah.

And sometimes it's so overwhelming that pressure that people just,

they just opt out because it's too much.

They can't live up to expectations. and it doesn't help that it certainly seems like around you everybody's got something to do there's a party and they're talking about it you turn on tv certainly you see people everybody's talking about new year's eve celebrations and and then you're home alone and am I supposed to be doing that? Am I supposed to do I have a party to go to? I've spent more money than I've wanted to on

New Year's Eve before just because of the last minute pressure though. I guess I got to do something

and didn't want to at all. I get that. In fact, I will say some of my favorite moments of New Year's Eve in the past,

I ended up typically throwing a lot of parties because that way at least I knew who was going

to be there and there could be a controlled environment, so to speak. But some of my favorite

New Year's Eve's have been working because I got to be a part of things as a journalist,

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