Can we have a happy VD thread?

[Littlebitpsycho]

We've got a Galentines thread which is awesome but can we also have one for those of us with decent men (if only to show that they are out there!)

I'll start:

I had flowers, chocolate, a card and a takeaway coffee handed over at work before 7am this morning (the coffee was particularly appreciated as it was bloody cold this morning - i work outdoors)

Anyone else?

Anyway, I had a lovely card and a big bar of Dairy Milk. I don't like posh chocs. 🍫

Ha in your face all those with generic chocolates and flowers with no thought, my man bought me pies that he had to source from my home area as i was missing them(only a few bakeries do them) . Actual effort and I can tell you who is happier!!!

We do small things all the time but can still do a small gift and celebration today too…. it’s not one or the other!

**Supposed to be a thread for people celebrating and not the dismissive posts that are on other threads.

We went for Dinner in the week. I got him a 'man's snack box' - pork scratchings and beef jerky etc. he got me a Cornish cream box with scones and stuff for it. I love it and can't want to eat them.

Agreed, i purposely started this thread for those of us who do want to celebrate - or even if you don't celebrate it, at least not to be snotty to those of us who do.

So lovely to read all the nice posts ♥️

Nice bottle of bubbly (what I wanted) and a very sweet card. Happy!

I don't normally do anything for Valentine's Day! I don't hate the day or anything like that I just get really awkward and uncomfortable when it comes to romance lol but this year I wanted to surprise my partner so made him a huge handmade hamper of all his favourite things, and when I came down to give it to him he'd prepared a dozen roses for me which he'd had delivered the day before along with a very lovely Moonpig photo card. I bought my little boy a little teddy and a Valentine's Day sensory book as well so he didn't feel left out! This evening we'll be having a lovely meal at home (not for Valentine's Day specifically) and watching Harry Potter, I can't wait 🥰

How sour those grapes must be! You are implying that happiness today with our lovers is a kind of foolish arrogance that will take a well deserved tumble next year. But you are really talking about different kinds of people in different kinds of relationships.

New, unknown, fragile, and potentially temporary relationships may rely more heavily than they should, at the beginning, on conventions and formula to convey commitment. In Long running, successful, romantic relationships we have developed reliable, agreeable, rituals that probably don’t suddenly fall apart. These relationships are, well, romantic and satisfying. Some of them thrive on silly celebrations and symbolic gifts and some don’t but they don’t suddenly fall apart.

I got daffodils (my favourite flowers), a bar of Tony Chocolonely and a book I want to read. I did tease him about the book though, it's Mr Loverman by Bernadine Evaristo and, as is made clear from the blurb on the back, is about a man who has been cheating on his wife of 30 years with his best friend.

My eldest is 17 and is dating for the first time. They both have been very sweet and romantic to each other, it's adorable.

🤣 I thought that

I immediately thought - "bloody hell - are we celebrating venereal diseases now?" 😂

Flowers and a card this morning and nice 3 course meal being cooked for me tonight. Although getting dinner cooked for me is usual, he is cooking a special dinner tonight he says.
He is just amazing

Bizarre, why would you need 11 cards?! Sounds like he had another 10 women on the go and accidentally sent them all to you 😂

All I got was a FB messenger message from my b/f. Feckin cheapskate.

Not many, especially those in long term relationships - men tend to be either consistently good at it or do nothing unless reminded.

Strangely enough most people who complain about Valentine's Day being commercialised have no issue with Mother's Day or Father's Day being celebrated in a similar way.

Snigger 😁

I had a lovely card and my fav Whoosh shower jelly from Lush - thrilled.

DH decided he wanted me open them in front of the kids (something soppy about wanting them to see that daddy loves mummy) but DS (3yo) got so pissed off he didn't have a card, he took the one he gave us from nursery yesterday back to nursery - backfired somewhat 😂

Cards not exchanged yet as DH gets up at 5am for work and I don’t need to be up till 8. But he did leave my mug set out with the sugar and tea bag in and the kettle ready with water so I just have to turn it on. It’s the little things isn’t it 🥰 we went out for a meal earlier in the week which was his treat and I got some roses 🌹

Got a card, chocs and red roses - I got DH a card and chocs. Meal deal for tonight. Oh, and the dog got DH a card too cos she wuvs him 😁

I don't do cards or flowers but dh and I had a couple of nights away this week. Nice meals and ale is the way to my heart ❤️ We do this often to be fair. Walk a lot to burn off the cals.

It's good to celebrate the decent ones.

It's been lovely,I woke up to tea and chocolates in bed,a large bouquet of roses and a large box packed with all of my favourite sweets and a beautiful glass sweet jar and a lovely card and our DD17 had also bought me a Valentine's card and pressies as well bless her.

DD17 is at College so my DH cooked lunch for us so we had a gorgeous 3 course lunch together and I've been sent back to bed for a laze(not been sleeping properly)with a cup of tea.

First Valentine’s Day as a wife for me. My husband bought me a card and my favourite chocolates. He then complained that I didn’t get him chocolates so we have shared the box that he bought for me 😂.

I was very spoilt this morning: I came downstairs to a dozen beautiful yellow roses, a little china sun-and-moon trinket dish, apricot Turkish delight, some beautiful rose-shaped cookies and a posh jar of cherry jam from DH (who had been asked not to get me chocolates because my migraines are bad at the moment and had looked for unusual sweet treats instead because he's lovely), and some very cute socks from our dog.

Its been insanely busy for us so I wasnt expecting anything but I got a beautiful rose and box of chocolates which toddler promptly escaped with.
We were both trying to keep a straight face but was hilarious so we ended up 'sharing'.

Were both then making time for eachother this evening, taking time out from tag team parenting and itll be lovely.

Flowers and a huge set of essential oils. He never forgets, even after more than thirty years. However, my day will forever have a better meaning after DIL gave birth to our first GC this moning. 💗