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What's Going On for Your Valentine's Day Specials, couples?
Anonymous(45 Plus)This year, like every year, was "everything." It just so happens that it was around Valentine's day, 14 years ago, that my girlfriend and I met. It was around that same time, two years later, that we moved in together - and lived happily ever after.
My girlfriend - and the three little gifts she gave me who call me Daddy - is the center of my universe and I don't even want to think of my life without her. (We, somewhat to our own surprise as we are actually otherwise rather traditional, were turned off by the idea of being married.) So we make Valentine's Day special.
Typically, for the family part - and we did it last night because the holiday fell on a Monday - we have a dinner with the kids, putting a card at each of their place settings with a box of candy or a plush toy. I get my girlfriend flowers and a card and she - in what has become something of a half-joke/half-tradition - gets me a card and sexy underwear.
Then the next day we take the kids to Bumpa and Munga's (Grandma and Grandpa's) house for a long weekend. Then we go for a long weekend - (Friday, Sat. Sun. Monday) - either to the Hotel Washington (we live in the northern Virginia suburbs of Washington DC) or to a little B&B we found on the Chesapeake Bay and spend the whole weekend. (This year it is the Chesapeake.)
If we do DC, it is a play at the Kennedy Center, candlelit dinners with me in coat and tie and girlfriend in a beautiful dress, breakfasts in bed, dancing and - oh yeah - plenty of cuddling and sex. If the Chesapeake, it is walks around the little town - St. Michael's - and on the bay and maybe drives to other little towns. Little antique shops - girlfriend is a collector and likes interior decoration as a hobby. It is a little more informal, but candlelit dinners and - oh yeah - lots of sex.
This year we went to the Chesapeake. Just the two of us. Little shops for my girlfriend and I to peruse hand in hand and - the weather was pretty good - walks by the water and tours of quaint little towns. Oh, and yes, there were romantic dinners and lots of time in bed doing... well... you know.
It was, and always is, an incredible weekend. Though the funny part is that we invariably end up talking about the kids a lot of the time. It is funny - we look forward to the time away, but we love our children and sort of miss them. I am, especially, the most besotted milksop of a Daddy you will ever meet. I work in politics but my most prized job title is "Family Tickle Monster."
Any holiday is just a day unless you invest meaning in it. It has just become the fashion that Valentine's Day is out of fashion. Unless you have, as I am so lucky to have, someone who makes it fashionable by giving it meaning. For me, it will always mean the time when I met the woman who changed my life for the better - and when I wake up next to her and feel her warm skin against mine as she sleeps peacefully in my arms, I know what meaning Valentine's Day will have for me.
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Made and shared a nice dinner with my wife. Somehow she got food poisoning even though we ate the same thing. It's Valentines Day and at 3AM she was blowing chunks from both ends. Nothing says true love like literally wiping shit off the wall and bleaching the bathroom floors.
I had a surprise box of chocolates and a cutesy card all staged for her. Forget that. She doesn't even want to think of food. And she's yelling at me for a shitty dinner and not knowing how to cook even though I cook every day. Ah, married life!
We're going to my husband's sister's house for dinner. I'm speculating that she and her husband will announce a pregnancy but my husband doesn't think they will.
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Me and my boyfriend had fun
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I took my girlfriend out to dinner in St. Augustine Saturday night because dining out tonight will be absolute bedlam. She is getting a dozen red roses that will be delivered to our office this morning.
I'm single and nothing is happening.
My girlfriend and I spent our Valentine's Day in Paris
Valentines is past for us and thats a VERY good thing , although the setting on the beach was awesome , sadly the mozzies started coming , white wine and cocktails on the foreshore.
Certainly an overated day , and really just commercial bullshit , not so here fortunately :) .-
Absolutely nothing. I am single. I am proud to be single because that is so much better than in a wrong company then get your emotions screwed. ✌
It's any other day. If I find someone one day, I wouldn't be that emotionally attached. Spend more time with yourself than with your partner to keep your sanity, mental health in check.
Or else you will become controlling, paranoid, crazy, too reliable... 🥶 -
Me and the Mrs made a decision to not celebrate the V day anymore. I love my Mrs and show her my love everyday and we habe our own flowers and we charish each other.
Thanks Paris! Happy Valentine's Day!!! 💖💖
There's nothing special going on for me. It's just another day.-
We went out for dinner Saturday night. Had a little romance planned for today, but kids got a day off from school. 🙄
We brought some chocolate and we had a little date, but it wasn't fancy and we didn't be together for a long time because she was exhausted from work and i didn't want to make her more exhausted, but we texted a lot and it was fine.
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I'm about to start sorting through another stack of records.
Nothing as always. I’ve never been in a relationship on Valentine’s but I also don’t believe in it. It’s just another day. Even if I was in a relationship
Nothing going on here @Paris13 . Like usual just dinner by myself.
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I've been the shops, now got to find out about the house I'm trying to rent.
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I’m single was Valentine’s Day yesterday in Australia 🇦🇺.
Just work and medical appointments.
We did our stuff yesterday.Funny you invited me, crying with my side pillow, kissing it imagining my ex. bye.😭
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Went to motocrossing, just chilling here in the hotel penthouse now. Playing some piano and pool.
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Went out with a friend to this nice restaurant downtown called Carnevor. Then we did something different. I have a crew cab truck. I laid a few blankets in the backseat and used my 12” IPad Pro and we watched a movie on it.
Nothings going on if I want candy I’ll have to buy it myself
Be with my favorite friends with benefits, PLAYING AND FUCKING MOST OF THE DAY
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