Every Day Love

I knew a couple who don't do Valentine. I share with them the thought it is a phony occasion, just another excuse to go out and spend and pull off a date that’s more expensive than what other people are having. There’s also something that disturbs me about seeing all these couples stuck in the horrendous traffic together, jostling for parking spaces, all to get to some fancy candlelit dinner with mushy music playing in the background, grandly celebrating love - when a lot of them give love a bad name the rest of the year.

My suggestion is, only couples who are truly admirable and inspiring should be allowed to celebrate Valentine – couples who’ve been married for decades and go around acting more like siblings than lovers, those who stick together after going thru difficult times, those who make the effort to stay romantic and passionate after years of being together, those who are unfailingly loyal and honest to each other when it’s so easy to cheat and lie. Valentine should be limited to those couples we all envy bcoz we can tell they have a good love going, and when we see them together we know we want exactly what they’re having.

I’m a self-righteous bitch, I know. Haha.

So, anyway, i think my exes is only too happy to not have to line up and buy me flowers and gifts and make pricey dinner reservations with the rest of the masses on this one cheesy day. My aversion to Valentine is probably one of the few things he genuinely likes about me without me having to force him to. I guess it’s the one time when I turn into The Low-Maintenance Girl of His Dreams. Hahaha.

I think it’s infinitely more touching when people do sweet things for you not bcoz it’s Valentine, or Christmas, or your birthday, but on any old day, just bcoz they feel like making you happy, bcoz they love you in that way. And --- – he’s like that to me all the time, all heart, without fail. So, yes – he definitely deserves a break on Valentine.