A song of the same name from Taylor Swift’s ninth album, the folky pandemic-era wonder Evermore, in which fictional narrator Dorothea describes reuniting with an old flame.
OK, but is this a real trend, or just a TikTok thing?
As is so often the case, Swift’s lyrics were identifying a widespread romantic phenomenon that many of us have experienced. People really do hook up with their exes when they go home for Christmas!Serious stats on this subject are hard to come by . But a new survey by dating website Seeking.com found that 52% of single people had recently been contacted by a former flame looking to rekindle their romance.
” – when exes reappear, as if from the dead, over the holidays. But that didn’t have a specific hometown angle! This is totally different!Debatable. Nostalgia, small-pond syndrome and Baileys can be a potent combination, especially when you’ve watched too many Christmas films where a glossy city girl reunites with her charmingly rough-round-the-edges high school boyfriend.
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