What Is Anti Valentine’s Day?

Anti-Valentine’s Week celebrations start right after Valentine’s Day on February 14, and it is absolutely unrelated to love and romance. It begins with Slap Day on February 15 and ends with Break-Up Day on February 21. In between, people celebrate Kick Day, Perfume Day, Flirt Day, Confession Day and Missing Day.

Singles Awareness Day (or Singles Appreciation Day) is celebrated on February 15 each year. It is an unofficial holiday celebrated by single people. It serves as a complement to Valentine’s Day for people who are single, and not married or in a romantic relationship.

The Missing Day of the anti-valentine week is dedicated to all the people who miss their long lost love or deceased partner a lot and just cannot get over their memories.

Islam discourages the participation in the holiday while Buddhism merely gives more importance to other holidays. Although Buddhism does not blatantly discourage its people from celebrating Valentine’s Day, Hinduism, India’s major religion does.

Not many are aware of Anti-Valentine Week in February which comes right after Valentine’s Week and you may find it quite interesting as it includes Slap Day (15 February), Kick Day (16 February), Perfume Day (17 February), Flirting Day (18 February), Confession Day (19 February), Missing Day (20 February) and Break-Up Day (21 February).

Happy Slap Day : Slap Day is celebrated on February 15 every year, and this time, it falls on Wednesday. The first day of Anti-Valentine’s Week is Slap Day, and it begins a day after Valentine’s Day on February 15. This day is for people who want to slap their ex who cheated on them or gave them heartbreak.

The Anti-Valentine’s week ends with Break-up Day which is celebrated on February 21. This day marks the end of the cycle of love and hate and urges people to treat bygones as bygones. The Break-up Day is not necessarily a day to celebrate the breaking up of two people in a relationship.

The significance of break up day or the whole Anti-Valentine’s Week is to neutralize the toll that Valentine’s Day has put on singles or people in a toxic relationship. One must not wait any longer if they are in a toxic relationship.

Kick Day (16 February)

Kick day marks the second day of the anti Valentine’s Week and therefore, this is the best time to kick out all the worries from your life and especially the gifts sent by your ex partner(s).

Singles awareness day

Singles Awareness Day (or Singles Appreciation Day) is celebrated on February 15 each year. It is an unofficial holiday celebrated by single people. It serves as a complement to Valentine’s Day for people who are single, and not married or in a romantic relationship.

Confession Day is 5th on the list in Valentine’s week. It comes after Slap Day, Kick Day, Perfume Day, and Flirting Day. Confession Day is observed for people who want to confess their guilt, mistakes, or other hidden things to their significant other.

Missing Day, which is the second last day of Anti-Valentine’s week, is all about missing the person whom you love the most. If you were away from your partner due to a long-distance relationship or break-up, then you must be spending every day longing to be with them.

While popular culture makes you believe that Valentine’s Day is only for love-struck couples, it’s a day of love, and that love can be for anyone. Thus, all kinds of love should be celebrated; whether it is for your parents, your siblings or your children.

It matters not how you celebrate this one day, but how you treat your relationship on all the rest. Opting out of Valentine’s Day isn’t a reflection on your relationship or your love. It matters not how you celebrate this one day, but how you treat your relationship on all the rest.

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