According to ‘the experts’ (whoever those crazy dudes might be), this is the week that couples in dodgy relationships finally decide to throw in the towel. This little factett, that, on the surface, seems sad enough to make a grown man cry, is not actually the misery fest that it might appear.

Hang on, hang on. Before you all gather round to pelt me with rotten tomatoes and unwanted Boyzone cds, let me explain.

The cheery souls doing the dumping have probably spent the last few years wanting to shove their partners into the washing machine and set it on ‘boil wash’ – now, finally, they’ve made the break…without resorting to murder. I think we’re all agreed this is a good thing. And so now we have a plethora of newly released prisoners, emerging like butterflies, in their best under-crackers, ready to shed the shackles of the past and meet someone new – and maybe, just maybe, if you’re very good and eat all your greens, that ‘someone’ might be you!

For the poor old dumpee the benefits may not be so ‘smack in the face’ obvious, but if we lift up a few rocks we’ll find them all the same. Ok so there’ll be a lot of boo-hooing and snotty noses at first, but the realisation that being with someone who doesn’t love the bones of you is utterly pointless, will eventually make itself known. That’s when things start to look up and, like the dumper before, the dumpee is now all set to haul their skinny buttocks back out there and start flirting once more –flirtomatic.com is, it goes without saying, a cracking place to start!

And so what about the rest of us – the singletons for whom nothing has changed. Well my friends, we’re the cats who really get the cream. The universe is currently splitting its seams with an enormous smorgasbord of delicious new talent into whom we can sink our flirtatious claws.

All the people we secretly fancied but belonged to another are now ready, plump and fresh, racked up in the window of the world’s strangest butcher – just waiting for us to come along and pluck them down.

What a beautiful way to begin 2009 flirt fans. If only those newly singled people knew what we had in store….

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