I’m dreading spending Christmas Day alone while my boyfriend is off galavanting

Cropped view of an unrecognizable black man who is leaving on a trip carrying a brown leather duffel bag as he walks out the front door of his home.

DEAR DEIDRE: I KNOW I’ll end up sitting alone on Christmas Day with my two cats for company while my boyfriend is up to heaven knows what. 

We’ve been together for two years and he works away most of the time up North. I live in the South. He’s got a business selling cheap household products and says he has to travel to collect stock.