People assign meaning to things and dates. Things are what you mean them to be. Valentine's Day could also just be a regular Tuesday, February 14th. Assigning more to it then that, especially given our situations, is needless administration of more hurt.
C'mon. People making an outward show of how much they love their partner is all VDay is about, and has not much to do with actually loving your partner every day, as if all the other days are somehow not as significant to be loving. If tomorrow the world decided that March 1st was the day to celebrate romance and no longer February 14th, would we all of sudden attribute more than a fair share of our grief to that March 1st date and no longer to Feb. 14th?
Hey, in case you think I'm beating you up in my posts, I'm not. I'm trying to be strong for you and help pull you out of the mire of emotions/actions that are giving you pain, just as others have done for me. It also helps me to help others. That's what this site's about.
So don't dwell on today, put your focus back on you and what you can do to make your world happier today!
