Personally, I think Valentine’s Day is extremely overrated. Valentine’s Day should not be the only time boyfriends/husbands buy their girlfriends/wives chocolate and flowers. It should not be the only day couples buy each other gifts expressing their love for each other. These things should happen any and everyday of the year. For this reason there should not have to be a day called Valentine’s Day.

I understand the idea of Valentine’s Day and think that its nice to get chocolate and flowers but I still think that Valentine’s Day is completely overrated. Too often we hear this overrated opinion coming from the bitter single women that hate to see others in love because they themselves are not in love. But I am not her. Interestingly enough I am very much in love with an awesome guy. I don’t want to completely bore you with my love life but my boyfriend is the BEST ever. We have only been together for 8 months but in those 8months I have received a bouquet of flowers 3-4 times. That may not seem like a lot but for those of you girls that receive flowers for Valentine’s Day and your birthday…I get twice as much as you do. J Every time he gives me flowers I am completely surprised. Its never for a special occasion or certain time of year but just because…The first time I got flowers it was the second day we had been dating. I guess he was wanted to show me how much I meant to him even though we had just started dating. One of the other times I got flowers was because I had had a really horrible day at work. It was soo nice to come home to a bouquet of red roses. There had been many other ways my boyfriend has expressed his love for me at the most randomest times. To me those are the best times to tell someone that you love them, when they are not expecting it.

Too many times guys think that they only have to be affectionate to their women once a year, but this obviously (or maybe not so obviously to some guys) does not get them to far. Its funny to me that people celebrate Valentine’s Day even though their relationship is completely falling apart. Last year my ex and I were “on a break” that I knew was the beginning of the end, and he wanted to go out for Valentine’s Day. I told him that I didn’t think we should out on a show pretending we were happy. One day of kindness and affection would not make up for the hurt he caused me.

I guess what I’m saying is that I love the idea of Valentine’s Day but think that the expression of love should happen everyday. Even if the expression of love is shown in the smallest of ways, it goes a long way.