It's the season everyone suddenly wants a plus-one.

Cuffing season is the fall-to-winter stretch when people pair off for warmth, holidays, and someone to text at 11pm.

It's not automatically shallow.

Real connections start in cuffing season too — the label just describes the timing, not the sincerity.

The tell: does it fade by spring?

If someone's only interested when it's cold outside, that's the pattern worth noticing.

Skip the guessing, start talking.

Meet someone new and figure out if it's real, season aside.