Valentine plans

Today DH went out 'to sort something' and came back with a card and a lovely bouquet from the florist. He always remembers Valentine's but is ahead of himself this year.

Possibly because he is out tomorrow playing bowls and on Thursday I have a dental appointment to have a retained root removed from my gum.

I do have a card and a gift upstairs ready wrapped, may give it to him later..... or wait until Thursday

Nope .... Another year of being 'manless'. Oh how I'd love someone to be 'romantic' with!! I've made seven Valentine cards for all my single friends, so hope that will put a smile on their faces on the day! Written a comical poem in one of them for my friends rounds the corner (a couple) who are very kind to me!!!! Oh how I hope the postman comes on Thursday!!!!!

Esspee a sad day for you, made harder I expect by all the sentimental stuff of Valentine's Day.

AFAIK DH is going round to his parents' that night to discuss their failing marriage.

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He has certainly marked the calendar as out until midnight, but I think Thursday is the night for his intended intervention with them.

Years ago after I divorced my first husband and he was living with a young girl I use to send him a valentine"s card from a different part of the country every year (worked with a load of travelling engineers) Would loved to have been a fly on the wall when it arrived.

The dear man is taking me out on Wednesday evening to a nice restaurant. We couldn't get in on Thursday, which is just as well really as they tend to bump up prices for food and drink because it's Valentines Day.

On Thursday evening I am going to set the table with candles and flowers and I'll cook him a nice two course meal with a bottle of fizzy to accompany it. I have a card for him and a nice bottle of wine. (I have also bought him 35 snowdrops in the green for the garden because he mentioned we need a few more.)

We do cards, and I will cook a nice meal (we are having steak frites, and raspberry tarts with cream) which we will eat by candlelight. We try to show feelings all through the year, but it's nice to do something a bit special on 14th February.

My late husband's funeral was on the 14th Feb. The undertaker did discuss whether I might want to move it to another day but I (at the time) thought the date appropriate as he had managed to stay around for our 30th anniversary (a few days before his death) through sheer willpower.
Now, 15 years later, I cannot bring myself to "celebrate" Valentine's Day despite having moved on.

Good grief. Presents???? Wow.

Valentine's used to be for sending anon cards to people you fancied, not people you were already going out with or married to. Card makers spotted a bandwaggon but that was after our time so we just sit and make disparaging comments about it all. We are no good with mobile phones either.

Oh my! What a lot of love there is going around, from husbands to find to GCs to family dogs...
I had to laugh (kindly) at Nannyme s comment. I've done that myself every fortnight - bought my own choice of flowers.
JoJo58 wow! Lucky you. I love rubies and diamonds, I say, posh eh?
??? but mine are the glass variety and a good job too as I knocked one stud down the basin plughole.
Glammagran ? Sounds a very glam meal. Have fun and enjoy.
Scribbles I had to laugh at your last paragraph. ? So so true and Legs55 I hope you do receive a card from your grandson but in any case, I'm sure that there is the love of friends to comfort you...and us on GN of course.

To all who are in relationships long or short, 'ancient' or 'modern' past or present, I send and ?

My DH has recently been diagnosed with Multiple sclerosis so we are are spending the day at an MS awareness day, he was upset that we would be spending the day there but as I explained that showing each other that him showing me he is willing to share his problems rather than shut me out and I wanted to support him was the most romantic way to spend the day. we always buy each other little token gifts that are relevant to our wedding day.

Me too kittylester it is our fortieth wedding anniversary in July, time then for a big splash

46th this year but was aware from the start that DH does not do Valentine's Day However, the year we met he presented me with a teddy with a romantic note and a bottle of Babycham (my favourite drink at the tine) completely unaware of the date. He buys thoughtful gifts throughout the year 'just because' not for any commercial occasion as he puts it. Mentioning the day brings back memories for him of the year a girl at my work had an enormous bouquet delivered. This resulted in envious comments, to our other halves, from all girls at work so bunches of flowers were produced later that day or next. It still rankled at the Christmas dance when all the males rounded on the one responsible for giving the enormous bouquet.

When DH proposed to me, he didn't want to do it on Valentine's Day - too cheesey - so the day before he took me for a walk to a park where we'd had our first date. It was unexpected and quite romantic. So we always celebrate our engagement anniversary on the 13th, rather than anything on Valentine's day. This year it's drinks at a local wine bar, lunch at a bistro over the road and then the bus home. Romance has not died! We do exchange cards on the 14th but we're off on hols on the 15th so our Valentine's day meal will be polishing off whatever's left in the fridge.

After 45y marriage this is more our style:

A woman was taking an afternoon nap. When she woke up, she told her husband, "I just dreamed that you gave me a pearl necklace. What do you think it means?"

"You'll know tonight," he said. That evening, the man came home with a small package and gave it to his wife. Delighted, she opened it to find a book entitled "The Meaning of Dreams."

Last year we went out with friends for a Valentine's dinner.
This morning we dropped our son at the airport for his flight home to England. We got home and gave a sigh of relief for the silence so I think we will quietly celebrate the 14th at home this year. He is a lovely young man but very full on which I can understand as he lives alone and was enjoying spending time with his parents.

Never bother. It’s a waste of money.

My partner also agrees.

Though the flowers will be bought the day after, at about a third of the Valentine’s Day price!

It’ll be an M & S meal deal for us too, if there’s anything left in our local store after we’ve been to the cinema on Thursday afternoon! Cards and chocolates are a given and I’m sure some nice flowers will be coming my way.

Snap Monica, our anniversary is also 17th Feb, so will celebrate and give each other a present then. Though we kind of acknowledge 14th with cards (anonymously signed) and small chocolate gift for each other that are hidden by the front door and we claim to be from our secret admirers!

Gosh! We haven't 'done' Valentine's Day for years (married 37.5 and together 42 this year) and this year it clashes with my WI meeting (I'm president so can't miss) and his choir night! So no romance but I don't think you need a special day!

I will get us a supermarket meal for two. It's hubbies birthday the day after so we will go out for a meal then.

I've given up...I can't remember when dh last did anything. A simple card would do but nope. I carried on even after he stopped but don't bother now.

We pick out a big box of chocolates and binge on it, together!