Is it an issue for you or others you care about? Or maybe dont care about?
Note- I’ve been married for 22 years now so I tend to forget but yeah, I remember that and Christmas were hard.
C’mon, it’s just another Hallmark holiday. Any single person who gets depressed because of a day on the calendar specifically implemented to separate dopes from their money, has much deeper issues than those attributable to having not received a box of candy.
I remember when I was young and single, thinking how nice it would be to have someone to celebrate Valentine’s Day with. I never managed to have a boyfriend on Valentines Day until I met Suburban Plankton when I was 21. I’m sure we did romantic-y Valentine’s stuff the first few years, but it’s been literally decades since either of us has really bothered. We’re both Ok with that.
Every year I send Valentine’s Day packages to 6 of my friends’ kids. I’ve also started participating in The Valentine Project, a local charity that matches up donors with kids who suffer from chronic illness and lets us buy them Valentine’s Day packages. I have fun creating all of these gifts and bringing love and cheer to kids.
This year I had some extra candy left over so I took the candy to my weekly trivia game and shared Valentine’s love with my team and the hosts.
In the past I’ve treated myself to Malley’s chocolates and heart-shaped pizzas.
As a single person, I probably enjoy Valentine’s Day more than most coupled people!
This seems a pretty simplistic (and kind of obtuse) attitude.
Are you saying you can’t imagine how anyone could feel sad on a holiday (manufactured or not, LOTS of people buy into it)that they aren’t included in? Do you also question why the suicide rate rises around Christmas time?
sorry, double post
I spent two single Valentine’s between my first and second marriage. Didn’t bother me at all.
Mind you, my birthday was the trigger for feeling miserable about my life.
I tend to forget unless someone reminds me. It’s not that I never think about being single, but it’s not special to that day, and it’s not something I get too particularly sad about, since I realize that any relationship would be way too much stress for me, worrying about what someone else thinks of me and if I’m making them happy.
I had to check to see today was the 13th, since I thought you were bringing it up because it was the 14th.
I was 34 when my wife and I met. I had a girlfriend on one, maybe two, of the Valentine’s Days before I met her. Wasn’t particularly bothered by being single on the other Valentine’s Days.
Except it doesn’t. That’s a myth.
Nah, it doesn’t bother me none. I am grateful that I am free from the burden of yet another gift exchange and the emotional land mines associated with a holiday framed around love. I don’t need any of that in my life.
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You make a good point here… and it’s a shame that so many people are so suggestible.
Independent thinkers, like myself, are able to see these days for what they really are… boxes on the calendar… and not be influenced by the machine.
But my kind are few and far between.
What? Nobody found the video to be funny?
I spent Valentine’s Day two years ago at a strip club in Rhode Island. I didn’t know if it would be packed or empty - it was empty but the top strippers were still working and fighting over me. I finally spent $200 on one that I picked but I made her talk to me an hour first before we went into a private room. She was smart, incredibly attractive and way out of my league but I got her for my own Valentine’s Day present.
I have a serious girlfriend now but she costs more and can be quite bitchy at times. Sometimes I long for the idea of just picking another one off the shelf even if just for a night.
Wow.
Seriously.
Wow.
Assuming that’s true, my point is that it’s not hard to imagine why a lot of people might be unhappy during a time when they see (or imagine) everyone else around them enjoying the occasion. It just seemed weird to me that it seems to **Stuntman Mike
**. No big whoop 
Oh, and I don’t give a rat’s hat about Valentine’s or Christmas or really any major holidays except Halloween, and it depresses the hell out of me to not have anyone to celebrate it with. Just saying, I understand why a single person might feel especially lonely on “A day for lovers” (even as manufactured as it is).
I’ve never had a Valentine’s day as a couple. Or a birthday. Or a Christmas. I’ve long got over it.
It kinda bothers me…I’m really romantic and a huge ‘gifter’ in that whole, language of love way so the idea of Valentine’s Day really resonates with me. I’ve had like, very few relationships over my life and none of them have ever lasted long enough to get to a V-Day. So I’ve never been with someone for it 
It makes me sad and kind of depressed but it’s pretty much the norm for me to be alone on it lol
Foxy Lady?
Get into it for the kids and grandkids mostly. Me and the oldest granddaughter did marble painting and fashioned cards for her preschool class friends. We had a large time. Mr.Wrekker always gets me a little something. He’s in Mexico right now, not sure how he’ll manage it this year. We shall see.