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While out and about today i overheard several conversations about Valentine Day. A lot of what i heard were complaints.
One woman didn't get flowers, just a card and balloons. Another got the flowers, but no candy. Another didn't receive the exact ring she wanted.
So, just in case there's someone out there with the "i didn't get what i wanted from my husband/boyfriend" blues, i thought i would post my Valentine story so you can maybe feel better by comparison.

Today was my fourth "I didn't get..." Valentine day. For me it's a good thing. And for me "i didn't get" means i didn't get anything from a husband/boyfriend. I do always get the world's best handmade Valentine card from my special son.

I was widowed in 2001. Valentine day 2002 was extra terrible because, not only was it the first without my husband, but it was also one week before the first anniversary of his death. I thought surely it was the worse Valentine day in the world.
I was wrong.
Along came Valentine day 2003.
Other women were receiving candy, cards, etc.
I went to my mailbox and pulled out a big envelope.....containing my husband's autopsy report.

Four years later and there is still no man in my life, but each Valentine day that passes and there are no flowers and/or candy and my mailbox has an echo, a la charlie Brown, i smile because at least i didn't get an autopsy report!

Soooo, if anyone out there is feeling a little down because they didn't get exactly what they had hoped for? SHUT THE **** UP... Razzer
and hug your partner.
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To be honest, I hate valentines day.....too many bad memories, or no memories at all.

I am married now, happily at that.

However, 5 years ago, my ex-GF in Florida became my ex. Thank God I cancelled the flowers in time....For my wife, 5 years ago, she dumped her ex-BF after he failed in the second chance she gave him. Strange, both of us dumped/broke up with ex's on the same day in 2002.

Instead, we celebrate 22 July, that is the date we consider we were officially a couple in 2002, and 8 May 2004, our wedding anniversary.
Valentine day is akin to New Year's eve. There is far too much pressure to behave the way advertisers try to brainwash you into behaving.
It all comes down to money.

Too many holidays are snowballing that way.
Tomorrow Valentine day will be behind us and it will be the start of the Easter buying season!
I'm sure i'm not the only one that has seen the way Easter has become more and more about buying toys and jewelry for "basket stuffers."

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