post-Valentine's Day massacres

An excerpt from today's Agoraphilia:

The Ex-Precedence

Few people want to be alone on Thanksgiving... or Christmas... or New Year's... or Valentine's Day. As a result, many courtships that by all rights should have expired in the autumn linger on into mid-February. Now that V-day's over, the Annual Rite of Overdue Dumping should soon commence, thereby setting the stage for the Spring Mating Season.

Man, I sure wish I didn't recognize the accuracy of Glen Whitman's account.