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My late-husband enjoyed being romantic and Valentine's Day was just an excuse for him to surprise me. One year he bought me a new vibrator for Valentines Day. He said "Flowers die but this has batteries". God, I miss him so much.
Sigh. I feel sorry for the husbands, boyfriends, wives and girlfriends who are with people who have sour ass attitudes about romance. Would it kill ya to buy and sign a card?
I buy my wife flowers and chocolate for V day. She lights up like a Christmas tree every time.
While Valentine's Day has ancient origins, even pre-Christianity, it is fundamentally in the present day a concoction of greeting card companies and their marketing departments. It is an excuse to do something a little extra special for your significant other. If one or both of you make it into some Big Deal beyond that, then that is on the person doing that.
Do not start a new relationship prior to Valentines Day. You never know what one expects. Same advice for before Xmas.
Sometimes the random proximity of two annual dates can be interesting. My prior / late wife's birthday was within a couple of days of our anniversary. I was conditioned to make a big deal about anniversaries but my wife's feelings were a little hurt that I didn't make the bigger deal about her birthday. I mean how was I supposed to guess that one?
My current wife's birthday is 3 days after Valentine's Day. I judiciously make an equally big deal about both, lol. But she doesn't expect much from either one of them, fortunately.
Yep. And V Day and Mother's Day are Ammy Fests, all the people who never go out and never had any home training. I feel for the restaurant workers.
Absolutely horrid lol
We call it rookies' night.
And what is sad about it all is that many places go to a "special" menu...meaning we have a "limited" menu with easy items and can crank out a few hundred meals, get people in and out in 60-90 minutes, and turn our tables three...maybe even four times that evening. It is all VERY romantic, and we love the profits from it.
And what is sad about it all is that many places go to a "special" menu...meaning we have a "limited" menu with easy items and can crank out a few hundred meals, get people in and out in 60-90 minutes, and turn our tables three...maybe even four times that evening. It is all VERY romantic, and we love the profits from it.
Thoughts and prayers. Be strong.
Back in my day we felt NOTHING except the tequila sliding down our throats after closing on V day and Mothers Day LOL!!
We're pretty much a card and small heart shaped box of chocolate kind of people. LOL
I want the day acknowledged though. Get me a pretty card dammit. LOL
Yeah, I totally get the people who say that couples should be showing affection and romance all through the year, etc, but it's also not that hard to do something to acknowledge the made-up holiday, even if it is small or goofy. You can have both.
All holidays are made up though in some respect. I pick and choose what I celebrate. As a female, I don't get wound too tight about V Day and I am usually single/not dating but I love seeing people celebrate so I am always down for enjoying others holiday celebrations (unless it is rude people at restaurants then we gon' fight).
This year I am still single but have been seeing someone. It's new(ish) and I really am not expecting anything at all. I did tell him about my V day present to myself- the Beef Jerky Subscription from JerkyGent (highly recommend this it's delicious and amazing) and said I would share.
Flowers and stuff are nice but I'm more impressed with steak or salami or jerky. Even hot wings. I do like cupcakes. I'd take a cupcake with a pound of buttercream frosting over a card any day.
Don't break up just before V-day to avoid the expense of presents, etc. , then expect to get back together.
Anyway, everyone know the real holiday is 2/15 - Half-Price Chocolate Day.
I love this! The day after Easter is a good day to get some white chocolate which I love but isn't always available
Wrapping paper and gift bags that don't have hearts/cupids on them are good bargains too and you can use them all year round, including Christmas.
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