I’m honestly not impressed with Valentine’s Day. I’ve told DaddyGeek not to get me anything this year, and I mean it. We show our love in a lot of other ways – we don’t need a random day in February to prove it. And even if we did? You can’t prove love with a box of chocolates, or a sentimental card written by someone at Hallmark on salary, or a stuffed teddy bear. You can’t even prove love with a grand gesture. I’ve seen grand gestures in my life. They mean nothing without all the tiny, daily gestures.
Anyone can plan a romantic weekend or a skywritten marriage proposal or a bed of roses. I wouldn’t be surprised if you could buy that shit at Amazon!
True love is not rolling your eyes when I ask you to get me a soda “If you’re getting up anytime soon!”, and true love is knowing that I really mean Please get me a soda now! True love is being willing to go sleep on the couch because your snoring is keeping me awake and between you and the baby, I’m not sleeping at all. True love is letting me take a nap on Saturday morning while you watch the kids, even as they scream and yell and cry and run. True love is putting up with my family. True love is taking my mood swings in stride. True love is supporting me and all my crazy endeavors, including starting a small business when I’m already working part time and our schedules are already packed. True love is making me tea in the morning, and picking out samples that you know I’ll love, just for me. True love is sharing your ice cream with me.
True love is sharing your life with me.
True love is raising our children with me.
I know my husband loves me. It’s in every move that he makes. Every gesture of every day, the little things and the big things. I don’t need a holiday to tell me that, or remind me of it.
I Want to Spend My Lifetime Loving You
Moon so bright, night so fine
Keep your heart here with mine
Life’s a dream we are dreaming
Race the moon, catch the wind
Ride the night to the end
Seize the day, stand up for the light
I want to spend my lifetime loving you
If that is all in life I ever do
Heroes rise, heroes fall
Rise again, win it all
In your heart, can’t you feel the glory?
Through our joy, through our pain
We can move worlds again
Take my hand, dance with me
I want to spend my lifetime loving you
If that is all in life I ever do
I will want nothing else to see me through
If I could spend my lifetime loving you
Though we know we will never come again
When there is love, life begins
Over and over again
Save the night, save the day
Save your love, come what may
Love is worth everything we pay
I want to spend my lifetime loving you
If that is all in life I ever do
I want to spend my lifetime loving you
If that is all in life I ever do
I will want nothing else to see me through
If I can spend my life time loving you
I fully agree with the idea that true love is revealed in the little, everyday things.
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That’s a really sweet post. I enjoy Valentine’s Day, but I do agree with you. True love is much deeper than just a day.
Melanie´s last blog ..Sobering Thought
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You said it! Those gestures mean more than any store-bought Hallmark sentiment ever could.
Cheryl´s last blog ..Un-Valentine’s Day
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Perfectly said! True love is about everyday little things. Not a Hallmark holiday!
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Agreed.
Al_Pal´s last blog ..Sensitivity: I have it.
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I could not agree more. You shouldn’t need a random day to show your love for each other.
Mary Jo´s last blog ..GTT – Valentine’s Day, meh.
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I love it…true love, so much more than red hearts, roses or ‘cute’ cards. Sounds like you and your hubby have a relationship built to last and that is wonderful!
Happy Valentines Day!
~K
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Awesome post. I hope no one from Hallmark reads it or we are all in trouble. Don’t let them steal your day!!!
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You’d know what I meant if I said this post wanted to make me throw up in a good way, right?
No, really, you deserve this kind of love. This post gives me hope that maybe I’ll get back there some day.
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ps: You’d also know that I meant, “MADE me WANT to throw up etc etc,” right? Not even drinking tonight, I swear.
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Tonight Chebbar traded me his unburned dinner for my burned dinner. I looked at him and said, “Now THAT is true love.” HA!
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Abso-fucking-lutely, lady.
Maria´s last blog ..Girl Talk Thursday – Valentine’s Day (everyone’s favorite holiday to hate)
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Well said!
I loved especially the “taking my mood swings in stride” and the sharing ice cream part.
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Well said. I feel an enormous amount of pressure on V day, yet we both bitch about it. I don’t really want to feel loved more on one day than any other.
LZ @ My Messy Paradise´s last blog ..Before you ask, let me tell you…
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I adore this friend. Truly.
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So true! And it bugs me that V-day is really just a Hallmark creation (at least in it’s current pandemic incarnation).
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I demanded no gifts either. Although I would adore a love letter, written on any old paper, nothing fancy just some words of adoration and friskiness!
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