For those of you who are smugly coupled up with a significant other, well, don't get too comfortable just yet: according to Facebook data, it's officially breakup season, with splits statistically more likely to occur during December than any other month.
The data also determined that December 11 is the day you are most likely to be dumped and yes, that is exactly two weeks before Christmas. A coincidence? I think not.
After all, Christmas is the time of cosiness, cuddles and reconnecting - not great if you're no longer feeling the love. Plus, it's also the time of eating your weight in roast chicken and chocolate, which is never our finest hour. It's hard to be sexy and maintain a sense of mystery when you're stuffed with trifle and can barely waddle to the couch, save for a few bouts of flatulence to power you along.
Of course, Christmas is also the time families typically come together to celebrate the festivities, and if you're not exactly buddy-buddy with your partner's parents, it can be a little awkward for all. Or perhaps you just want to get out of buying Christmas presents - we are in a cost of living crisis, after all.
Discussing the data on AM this morning, co-hosts Ryan Bridge and Melissa Chan-Green weighed up the reasons why parting ways is so popular at this time of year.
"Do you think it's so you can get out of buying Christmas presents? You can go away over the Christmas holidays and you know, not worry? Have a fling?" Chan-Green suggested.
"I think it's the fact that you don't want to go and spend time with their family and have that whole situation happen when you're about to leave them," Bridge chipped in. "I think it's also a time of reflection, so you start thinking about the year, thinking about your life, how miserable you might be, and then boom, December 11 comes and they're gone.
"You also want to be single to mingle in the summer - when you've got a hot body, you're on the beach."
Bridge then invited viewers to send in their best - or worst, depending on how you look at it - breakup anecdotes, if they wanted some sympathy from the hosts.
"Or laughter," Bridge acknowledged.
And as it transpired, many viewers were eager to share their stories, quickly opening a can of worms - or a portal to the ghosts of partners' past.
The first story to be sent in? A woman named Tracey who was seven months pregnant with her third child when her husband decided to leave her, with the abrupt ending coming shortly after their first wedding anniversary and her birthday.
"This was meant to be a fun segment," Bridge lamented.
To hear more of the shocking stories, watch the video above.
