Valentine's Day is not just for lovers

Recorded January 30 , 2021
Valentine's Day is not just for lovers

Q)Girrrl, Can I ask you something? How do you and your husband celebrate Valentine’s day?
A) (Both of us) Very little if anything.

Q) How could this be? We are fortunate enough to have a long-time marriage, why wouldn’t we go all out each year to celebrate our love on Valentine’s Day?
A) Keep reading.

In this episode we discuss our family traditions around Valentine’s Day. Turns out, neither of us make a big deal over the “holiday” as we both see it as a retail ploy to take our money. Lucky for us our husbands agree and we keep it simple. Maybe I should say, lucky for our husbands because isn’t it the men who usually bare the burden of having to jump through hoops to express his love on V-day? 

Speaking for the both of us, we want expressions of love from our spouses EVERYDAY! Moreover, flowers die and chocolates go straight to my thighs. In full transparency, we do make sure to do something special for our kids.

We discuss the origin of Valentine’s day which, by the way, was NOT the brain-child of Hallmark like I suspected.

Additionally, we elaborate on why we think this day would be better recognized as a day to show love to yourself. Seriously, how often do we make it a priority to do that?  Probably not as often as we should.

Quotes:

I resent the commercialization of Valentine’s Day so much. .....Neither of us feel slighted [by not exchanging purchased cards or gifts on this day] because our goal is to do nice things for each other any time of the year. - Twanda

We spend so much time thinking about being in a relationship and expressing love for each other, but…… I’m really on more of a self-love journey. - Rhumel

Being a mom and a person with a career, there was a time where self love didn’t exist for me like I think it should have. - Rhumel

Not everybody is in a relationship. You should have a relationship with yourself. Honestly if you are not in a good relationship with yourself it makes it a lot harder to be in a good relationship with somebody else. - Rhumel

Let’s start a new trend of sharing what we did for ourselves for Valentine’s Day! - Twanda

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