I’m not against the opinion,just the romantic propaganda. I’ll be celebrating at home on the sofa with a packet of biscuitsMy wife and I won’t be celebrating Valentine’s Day this year. Valentine’s Day is approximately romance and 15 years together has tested that particular fantasy – like many others – to the limit. genuine life has the upper hand.
For love and romance (whatever romance is, as Prince Charles once nearly said) seem to me largely unconnected. Love has nothing to finish with gifts or meals or surprises – or even, and at times,liking one another. For all its power, love is the powerful unknowable, and love between couples,particularly those who hold been together for a long while, is a vital, and genuine,but often undetectable backdrop to the actual business of the day. If I hold forgotten how much I love my wife (and I finish sometimes), then all the chocolates and roses in the world aren’t going to remind me or reassure her.
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Source: theguardian.com