Coworker

It’s the company Christmas party, and spirits are almost as high as you and the rest of the office. There’s that girl from accounting you’ve had your eye on all year, so you swoop in and make your presentation like she was an important client (minus the graphs and overhead projector). The next thing you know, the holidays are over and you’re knee deep in an office fling. There is no positive outcome. It’s all downhill from here, and when you do break it off with this holiday hookup to avoid, you’ve made an instant enemy in the office. Plus, word travels fast and you’re tagged as “the guy who hooks up at company events,” which is a worse badge to wear than “the guy who takes too long in the bathroom.” It’s never sma

The Ex

The holidays always make people reminisce about good old times. It also makes guys think back to holidays gone by, especially those that involved an ex-girlfriend. Picking out the tree together; decorating the house; watching her expression when she opened that perfect gift; it’s natural to get nostalgic for the way things were, but snap out of it and think about why you broke up. The nagging, the fighting and the fact she was a grinch the 11 other months out of the year are precisely why she’s a holiday hookup to avoid. She hasn’t changed; she just seems better under the glow of a million Christmas lights. Don’t let the ghosts of Christmas past and present show up and talk you into a future that isn’t meant to be. Make contact, send some friendly e-mails or agree to get together for a cup of hot chocolate, but don’t take the relationship back to the physical. The next thing you know, it will be the official start of the New Year, but it will feel like the same bad one is replaying in its place.

Family Friend

Over the years, this holiday hookup to avoid has become like extended family. You had a crush on her as a kid, but now you’re both all grown up. Not quite a sister, but close enough to be considered another cousin. Now, think about hooking up with your actual cousin and you’ll see why this is just a bad idea (minus the inbreeding and possibility of kids with three eyes). First, it will make every family function, to which she always receives an invite, uncomfortable for the both of you. If she decides not to come and starts to distance herself from the clan, you and your raging hormones will look like the bad guy. Secondly, the family already approves of her, so if they find out about the hookup, they will want to know why things didn’t develop into something more. It’s best to just remain friends and look at this holiday hookup to avoid as simply eye candy that makes functions with family a little more tolerable.

Holiday Hookup Hell

These women all seem like perfectly sound (and easy) holiday hookup ideas, but once the magic of the season wears off, you’re left with nothing but impossible-to-vacuum-up tinsel and regrets.

rt to dip your pen in the company ink, especially not during the holidays.

Lonely Heart

This holiday hookup to avoid might be single and attractive, but she’s unlucky in love and she just needs someone to help her trim the tree (and we don’t mean the plastic one on her coffee table). As harmless as this holiday hookup seems, it could mean much more in her mind. The lonely and unlucky in love usually have their hearts set on romance, and the holidays make them sappier than a freshly cut Christmas tree. To you it’s a meaningless holiday hookup, but she sees it as a possible start to a relationship that will help usher in a new year, one in which she won’t be going to the movies and sushi bar alone. The lonely hearts should always be avoided, but especially during the holiday season. Plus, there is a reason she is always single: she is probably more irritating than a street-corner Santa ringing a bell.

There are two more holiday hookups to avoid coming up…

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