Valentine plans

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

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.

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 ?

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.

Good grief. Presents???? Wow.

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.

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.

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.)

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.

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

chapeau

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

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

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!!!!!

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

About three years into our marriage, I got a Valentine's card. Great effort, obviously, as he then forgot my birthday two days later.
Another fifty years with no repeat, but luckily I couldn't care less!
Good luck to those that do

We will be going out for a hack and then back to her place for threesome.

We've been together since 1965 and married since 1970. Stopped buying in to the commercial racket a long time ago. We rub along together nicely, treat each other with respect, show our love for each other every day one way or another. I receive a bunch of flowers spontaneously now and then and am more than happy.
For those of you who like to celebrate St Valentine's Day have a lovely time.

My DH is the most unromantic man on the planet and many years ago he decided we didn't need to do Valentine's Day. I might buy an M & S or Waitrose meal as I would like to celebrate it and I know that he will enjoy eating it.

My Dad was the kindest man you could ever wish to meet but not a romantic bone in his body. Despite 57 years of marriage Mum had never received a Valentine card from him or anyone else. He would take her out for a meal but nothing more romantic than that. So the first Valentine's day she lived with us I bought her the most loving one I could find addressed to "someone special". She knew it was from me but she loved it and kept it until she died 11 years later. When my brother was born Dad went to see Mum in the maternity hospital carrying a suitcase. Inside the case were flowers for her because he was to embarrassed to be seen carrying them on the bus.

I’ll be another one having a meal for two on my own .I always used to make a special meal when my DH was alive ,but that stopped just over 10 years ago. A friend has recommended the Waitrose meal ,which is the same price as Mand S. Would love to have someone to share the meal -or any meal- with, but have not found anyone so far,apart from a lovely man who is happy to share a coffee but is .used to his own company after 22 years of being a widower .- shame!

I am single so will not be doing anything. Wishing everyone else a lovely day and evening

No cards, no special meal or gift in this house but it is a memorable day for me for other reasons, so I'll be thinking of that. Bless all you lovely romantics, and all of you not so romantic, and hope the day is a happy one for all of you.

I have bought myself a bottle of pink fizz and I will sit and drink a couple of glasses on my own.

And I have got a card for late DH, he died last February, and will go and buy some red roses, which he always bought for me; if it pleases me, why not?

I will look at my last valentines card DH gave me..and the red roses I pressed, he used to send one of the girls out to buy a card and little bunch of red roses when he could no longer get out himself..oh how I wish he was here and I could cook him a little romantic meal.

Enjoy your evenings/lunches with your loved ones everyone

Very interesting reading. Since marrying we agreed not to buy each other anything at all agreeing that we celebrate our love for each other without needing a specific day. Still lovely ideas to read, enjoy your celebrations.