Valentine's Day... single or not, love it or hate it
February 14th 2008 01:02
I don't really get excited or make a fuss about Valentine's Day and believe that celebrating love and romance should be done regularly over your relationship and not just kept to your significant other, but with family and friends also. Like any other special occasion or holiday, it's become so commercialised that there's more money than effort (and sometimes thought) into presents.
If you're single don't dread today, or future V-Days because you don't have a partner; look on the bright side - you may or may not have family or friends that you can devote time and energy to on this day, instead of moping around feeling sorry for yourself and looking on Ninemsn for tips on how to avoid lovebirds this evening. If you see a sweet couple don't roll your eyes in disgust or slump your shoulders in sadness - just think, that'll be you someday with the perfect someone and they'll be worth the wait.
Read the next section and if you don't have a 'significant other' then apply it to people you're close to.
If you're in a relationship sure, use today as a day to start making an extra effort for your significant other, whether or not things are going smoothly or you're hitting some rough patches. Try and do things that you can't just buy, or that are more practical like...
Write them a list of "101 Reasons Why I Love You" (as inspired by an article I read today about a bride dying during her first wedding dance - it might get you a bit teary!)
Sing them the song from the Wedding Singer that Adam Sandler sung on the plane, and use their leg as a guitar if you don't have one to play or to use as a prop. If you don't know or can't remember the song then make one up similar, it doesn't have to rhyme and should have some funny moments also e.g "Hello my sweetie, you are so pretty, I like you so much and you make me feel witty..."
Make them some chocolate-dipped strawberries and feed them most of the strawberries (don't be selfish!)
Give them a really good massage that actually removes the knots and tension in their shoulders , neck and back, not just a sensual body-to-body one with massage oil
Slow dance with them in your room/lounge/kitchen spontaneously (try and put some music on, Lionel Richie or one of my boyfriend's favourites "I Finally Found Someone" by Barbara Streisand and Bryan Adams).
And most importantly, make this level of effort MORE OFTEN. You can create a 4 line song everyday, slow dance after dinner once a week at least, and give a massage when they give a big sigh and slump their shoulders after a hard day's work.
Trina
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