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Valentines day go me thinking, how many women don't want to celebrate Valentines days or anniversaries?
Also, men, if your ladies didn't want to celebrate them, would you? Curious to know how many men actually want to celebrate relationship-specific holidays and anniversaries, and don't just do it because its expected of them or their SO will be pissed if they don't, or its part of the "culture"?
Neither my wife and I celebrate Valentines Day and we never have since being together for almost 14 years. It is better to surprise each other on another random day. We do celebrate our anniversary though.
Celebrate your relationship on a daily basis. Don't do something special just because of some cliche holiday. Seriously, what would make you happier, a dozen roses on valentine's day, or a dozen roses sent to you just because it's Tuesday.
Every day is a celebration of our relationship, so we don't need a special day created mainly for and by commercial interests. Some people like them though, and that's fine for them. But when it becomes an expectation, it also becomes a counter-productive nuisance.
We don't celebrate Valentine's Day. I only remembered what day it was because the news this morning reminded me. And then I had to because my third-grader didn't have any valentines for his class. He was out sick Monday through Wednesday so there weren't any notes in his backpack about distributing candy, class roster, etc. Had to dash to Walgreens.
Our anniversary is hit or miss. We don't usually exchange gifts, but we might go out to dinner. I forgot a couple years ago.
I don't. Teh husband and I go on dates all the time, plan weekends away, do considerate things for each other, and have a great love life after 12 years of marriage. Somehow, feeling obliged to ramp it up a notch, over and above what we already do, for the sake of some arbitrary holiday, seems incredibly forced and artificial (and less than romantic).
We've been married 22 years and have gone out on Valentine's Day once. MrsCPG traveled a good deal on biz the first few years we were together, so she was never in town. Then we started having kids. So we just never got in the habit.
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