Valentine's Day - a chance to show true love?

Oh it's the day of the year that has most men shaking in their boots - February 14th - Valentine's Day! A tribute to St Valentine who defied the ruling Roman Emperor  who had cancelled all marriages, following soldiers refusing to fight in favour of staying with their families. St Valentine secretly married couples and became the saviour of love.

But sadly what was one man's crusade to advocate romance and love, has become a huge commercial industry. Hotels offering wonderful stays, restaurants expensive dinners, florists giving you red roses by the dozens, chocolates, diamonds, expensive gifts, everything is there for the taking for people to prove their love to one another.

Is this really love? Not in my book it's not. Why do people only have one day where they feel obligated to show the special person in their life how they feel? Shouldn't we be doing that every day? Also it doesn't have to be grand or expensive gestures, for me it's the little things that let you know how a person feels. When you catch each others eyes, a brush of skin on skin giving you goose bumps, a soft then passionate kiss, snuggling up entwined in bed, silly little text messages, little love notes cooking dinner together and so much more.


I think men feel the pressure of Valentine's Day more than women as they seem expected to pull out all the stops, to prove their feelings for the woman in their life. On the flip side I think women's expectations have been blown out of proportion adding to that pressure.


So I say, no need to spend a fortune and celebrate your love on just one day of the year. Make  your loved one know how special they are everyday you are with them and it's the little things that count.