Sure, we can just chalk it up to a Hallmark holiday. But what is so bad about dedicating one calendar to celebrating our love for someone? If you’re like us and enjoy giving in to your romantic side occasionally, these gifts are perfect for a little Valentine’s Day spoiling.

Many of us have forgotten that being a strong woman who demands equal pay for equal work and supports the rights and equality of all genders doesn’t mean we aren’t entitled to our idiosyncratic turn-ons — particularly if those turn-ons involve being submissive to a man.

When Married at First Sight was first announced, we collectively launched into our usual routine of “How disgraceful. How dare they. What time is it on?”.

A friend once told me, “You should never break up with someone without a back-up plan.” I took her advice to heart. It just made sense. You wouldn’t leave an apartment without finding a new place to live first, so why would you leave a relationship without a solid plan of where to get your orgasms and feelings going forward? Still, there are times when one unexpectedly finds oneself in a period of sexual vagrancy—maybe you got dumped, or a bad fight ended your relationship abruptly, or your back-up plan just fell through. It happens to the best of us. It’s during this delicate and lonely state that we find ourselves doing what one should never do: sleeping with the ex.

Breakups are painful enough as it is, now with social media we have the ability to rub salt in the wound of missing somebody. Many of us fall into the toxic cycle of remaining attached to our exes through social media. Whether you’re using your accounts to check their Facebook/Instagram/Twitter daily, make posts that prove ‘just how great your life is now’, or use their location settings to “accidentally” bump into them – this is your intervention. Here are 5 reasons why you need to block your ex right now –