The Turkey Drop...
The iconic “turkey-drop” is a feared concept by most young adults who are about to head home for the holiday season. For those of you who don't know, we here at The Edge know the concept all too well:
Turkey Drop
Verb
This occurs as long-distance couples return home for probably the first time since they left for college in September. As Thanksgiving rolls around, everyone returns home and someone gets dumped. Therefore, the turkey (gets) drop(ed).
Relationships are hard, especially those of long distance. As we move into the holiday season many returning couples want to plan to spend the holidays together, however, sometimes that can be more one sided.
If anything, we should be taking back the Turkey Drop, reclaiming it as a positive occurrence of Thanksgiving break. The first semester in college has given you and your partner time to think about what matters to you and how to balance a social and academic life at school along with a relationship hundreds of miles away. Thanksgiving is a reality check, it makes you and your partner realize if this is a relationship you are willing to keep working for or if it is time to take a break and focus on everything else going on in your lives.
Having a long distance relationship is exciting and straining at the same time. Of course, you look forward to and count the days before you both get to see eachother again, but that can also be keeping you from enjoying what is going on now. Building relationships in college is soooooo important and being in a long distance relationship will sometimes deprive one side of building strong relationships. However, long distance can be rewarding, being able to close that distance between you two and still stay close and connected even from far away is a hard thing to do but really great if you can do it right.
Break up rates spike at this time because it is hard to think about continuing a relationship through Thanksgiving, Christmas, and the ever looming Valentines day with someone you no longer want to be with. Rather than dragging your partner through a holiday season knowing that at some point it is all going to end, breaking up before thanksgiving allows for a more painless holiday season. Thanksgiving is also a time to spend with family, mend your broken heart with food and friends and family who love you as you move into the beginning of the new year.
Taking back the Turkey Drop means that yes, you did just get broken up with right before the quote, “most wonderful time of the year” but you now get to have a clear mind as you head your only focus being you and working on yourself is such an important gift that the Turkey Drop gives. Now you might be thinking, “why the hell is this girl glorifying being dumped?” Being dumped is terrible, but the turkey drop just means that you both grew apart while you were away, there is no bad blood or love lost, it is just now time for you to start a new chapter of your life.