When life hands you lemons add alcohol and stir!

[MichelleLT]

Sounds like a very amazing trip! So glad you and Marc were able to go and everything worked out so well!!!!!

Too funny about Gabe's present. Personally, I love practical presents, so I would have been fine with that.

You should have told him, "Oh! I also really need flowers! And a massage! And dinner out! Well, maybe that's overkill. Just the flowers would be swell." LOL

He obviously is a person who appreciates practical gifts. That doesn't mean he's not capable of romantic gestures, just his picture of life after dating doesn't include them. He obviously thinks those are required things while dating, but no one ever showed him or told him that they are important in the years after as well. So...might be time to just have a frank discussion with him. I appreciate the wok, I did need a new one. I really appreciate how you look after me and try and make sure I have what I need. But, I'm really a sucker for the romantic gestures. I would love it if you got me flowers.

Or you could just buy yourself some with a card signed Your Valentine and put them on the kitchen table. That would make him wonder! LMAO