Hi, so it's almost time for Valentine's Day and Super Bowl Sunday in America.

One holiday can leave us feeling disappointed and unloved, wondering, why don't they love me enough?

We see the commercials for Valentine's Day with loving couples, chocolates and flowers, but that's not usually our reality.

We live in a different world, a world where love is unreliable, where love hurts, and when they reach for the drinks or the drugs or whatever else is

distracting them from getting healthy we feel rejected over and over. And then there's Super Bowl Sunday, which often serves as an excuse to crack open a beer or six,

wear a jersey and party with friends.

Grown-ups getting wasted and cheering loudly for their team.

I began to hate sports because I knew that every game was just an excuse to partake in behavior that was destroying our family.

Because we all might be feeling emotionally exhausted.

I'll make a quick and leave you with three tips

to help get us through the month of February. Number one, leave them. If we plan on

attending a party and they have too much to drink or get wasted, it's okay to leave.

No need to make a big scene.

Remember to keep your dignity and your grace.

Just ask a friend for a ride home, or quietly call a cab, a lift, or an Uber.

I've done both, and once I was in the car and driving away I was so glad that I left.

Our partners will find a way home.

They are not our problems to take care of. Since they chose to partake in their

substance of choice today, it's healthy for them to have the natural consequences

that come with their poor choices.

Number two, no babysitting.

We are not their mothers.

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