IS IT WRIED not to have A VALENTINE?
144950
So what?! No biggy.  :)  \n\nNo need to be hooked up with somone JUST BECAUSE it's Valentine's day.  \n\nSome people make way too much of it.  Remember - Every day is a day to show love... This crud has become way too commercialized.
46388
no, i don't think so. why u have to? u hve ur own family, friends... so, just be u, u ur the one and don't deny urself. Love urself.
28966
It depends.  It is an individual thing.  Its all in the mind.  You can make the most out of the situation or choose to be miserable no matter what day it is christmas or valentines.
812127
you'd be lucky to find any romantic men out there.  My husband of 10 years, doesn't have a romantic bone in his body.  I wish he would.  But since I've never been romanced I guess I'm not missing anything.  It sucks that i don't have it.  Oh well.
117754
Nope.  Save it for marriage.  There's too many risks nowadays.  Diseases, babies, broken hearts.  It's just not worth any pain you may put yourself through because of it.  It only takes one time to get pregnant, one time to catch something, and one time to scar your heart for life.  I wouldn't chance it.
154263
Neither really--it may sound cliche, but there is a time and place for meaningful relationships, and at other times you need the less complicated "meaningless" relationships.  I think what is more important is knowing what your needs are.  If you are not having the realationships you want, then things need to change.  If you are enjoying your life, whether in meaningful or meaningless relationships, then no change is required.  You should feel no guilt about NOT being in a really deep connection with someone.  It may not be the time for that in your life.
39243
I don't like Valentines Day, It usually reminds me of what I don't have.  Plus the people who really are in love it shouldn't matter to because wouldn't it be Valentines Day every day.
86970
We give our kids a valentine every year.... usually a box of chocolates and a card. It makes them feel special and loved. i remember feeling that way when my mom and dad gave us valentines as kids. you can make your as simple or as fancy as you wish, just a token of love.
85042
You can ask your son/daughter to be your valentine :) That's what I did with my son. They'll love it. Or if you have a single guy friend, who you can talk to, ask him as friends if he wants to be your valentine, maybe go out to dinner and b**ch and moan about the state of singledom :)
156392
I just had to answer this one as it would be very rude of me if I don't answer a Birthday greeting.\nFirst of all, thanks for the greetings, you are a special friend too, Anjie.\n\nNow, to answer your question, I am basically doing nothin' special on Valentine's Day as I don't have a valentine, I am only 18 and have my studies to concentrate on. I am not even havng a B'Day party :(. Maybe 2 or 3 years later I will consider celebrating Valentine's Day.\nI think it is a great day to express your feelings to that special one in your life. The one who always makes you smile, the one who you know cares for you more than his/her own self and the one you just cannot live without.\n:)\nThank You Saint Valentine!
195187
no\ntrue love preserves one's self worth
165282
I believe that Valentines Day is, and should remain, for both sexes. It is a day that represents your love for eachother, one special day that was meant in celebration of ONLY eachother. Not just female, or just male.  I think that the day has become more of a female obsession because it is the one day that represents what they wish EVERYDAY could be like.  Its a day about what generally is most important to them, and that would be their man. We can only hope that our men will parallel our feelings everyday about how much they love us, but our day does come once a year. We will always love our men everyday, but sometimes we are, and you are so busy that its hard to devote every minute to telling eachother how we feel, or showing them.  I believe that Valentines day is the one exception, it is a day reserved for both of us to SHARE our love.\n\nAnd no offense to you, but males need more help buying gifts than women do.  Those advertisements were made BY women FOR men.  We're only reminding you to not forget. Plus women will remember to think ahead and get gifts maybe even a month before the big day.  We know you men wait until the last minute. Plus, if its not presents, theres always one sure way to please a man.  Women, unfortunately need more reassurance of your love, and most women are extremely materialistic.   \nIf your woman is not, get out your paper and glue stick, a paper card drwawn and written by you will mean 100 times more, and itll save you money.  But make sure it doesnt look like you forgot and had to throw something together last minute, spend at least a good half hour on it.
78357
im not sure this will really help you much but i am married and i am really looking forward to valentines day this year. I am a chef and for the first time in 20 years i dont have to work that night.  I plan on taking my wife to a nice show and cooking a really elegant dinner for her and making the most pationate love ever to her.\n\nhopefully something nice like that will happen for you
149831
February 14 is Valentine's Day. Although it is celebrated as a lovers' holiday today, with the giving of candy, flowers, or other gifts between couples in love, it originated in 5th Century Rome as a tribute to St. Valentine, a Catholic bishop.\nFor eight hundred years prior to the establishment of Valentine's Day, the Romans had practiced a pagan celebration in mid-February commemorating young men's rite of passage to the god Lupercus. The celebration featured a lottery in which young men would draw the names of teenage girls from a box. The girl assigned to each young man in that manner would be his companion during the remaining year.\nIn an effort to do away with the pagan festival, Pope Gelasius ordered a slight change in the lottery. Instead of the names of young women, the box would contain the names of saints. Both men and women were allowed to draw from the box, and the game was to emulate the ways of the saint they drew during the rest of the year. Needless to say, many of the young Roman men were not too pleased with the rule changes.\nInstead of the pagan god Lupercus, the Church looked for a suitable patron saint of love to take his place. They found an appropriate choice in Valentine, who, in AD 270 had been beheaded by Emperor Claudius. \nClaudius had determined that married men made poor soldiers. So he banned marriage from his empire. But Valentine would secretly marry young men that came to him. When Claudius found out about Valentine, he first tried to convert him to paganism. But Valentine reversed the strategy, trying instead to convert Claudius. When he failed, he was stoned and beheaded.\nDuring the days that Valentine was imprisoned, he fell in love with the blind daughter of his jailer. His love for her, and his great faith, managed to miraculously heal her from her blindness before his death. Before he was taken to his death, he signed a farewell message to her, "From your Valentine." The phrase has been used on his day ever since.\nAlthough the lottery for women had been banned by the church, the mid-February holiday in commemoration of St. Valentine was still used by Roman men to seek the affection of women. It became a tradition for the men to give the ones they admired handwritten messages of affection, containing Valentine's name. \nThe first Valentine card grew out of this practice. The first true Valentine card was sent in 1415 by Charles, duke of Orleans, to his wife. He was imprisoned in the Tower of London at the time.\nCupid, another symbol of the holiday, became associated with it because he was the son of Venus, the Roman god of love and beauty. Cupid often appears on Valentine cards.
106417
Valentine's Day is a day where people have set aside to show\nhow much they love their mate or significant other. The \nphrase "Will you be my valentine" is just a statement they\nsay on Valentine's Day. Everyday we are to show love. Not\njust on this day. Love is an everyday action. You can buy a\ngift for someone just because.
142354
Your past questions have been about Arabs and Muslims.  The celebration of Valentines is against the practices of Islam.\n\nBut to answer your question.  As a general rule, never give a woman anything that plugs into a wall socket.  A gift must require thought.  Flowers and a card ARE expected.  The little something extra must be something that you know she wants and that she has hinted about over the past month.    Good luck with it man.
142513
you dont have to give a man anything he already has his valentine gift 365 days a year and its you women out there. its the guy who has to give the women a gift because you men out there know your guilty of not paying attention to women thats why they made valentines day for men to make up for the bad crap they did thru out the year! you know your guilty ! so just fork over the bucks and buy your woman something as long as it comes from the heart thats all that matters, if your rich then even better for you. you might get lucky and get a BJ like the guy said up top!