What are your plans for Valentine’s Day this year?
Valentine's Day is a sore subject around this place.
See, DH and I sort of eloped on Valentine's Day. Or at least we decided to elope on Valentine's Day but by the time we got ourselves to Las Vegas and got the requisite marriage license and found an open chapel, we were actually married on February 15th.
We had a wedding all planned for June and we went ahead with it anyway, for the family's sake, but it was our little secret that we were already married.
We have friends who were married in three different ceremonies and we actually planned on having three ourselves because it sounded like fun, but it took so long to get our respective households combined and somewhat organized (in fact, that project isn't completed to my satisfaction even today....), we never did do the third one in San Francisco.
DH is not very creative when it comes to holidays. He gives cards. Only cards. From all I can fathom, that's all his family ever did for any occasion was give cards. He is quite pleased with himself when he hands me a card, and I have given up on trying to augment his ways to include even poorly thought out gifts.
All that aside, our first year, I didn't get a blessed thing on Valentine's Day. Then on the 15th, I got an anniversary card. I wasn't happy.
Carefully, I tried to explain to DH that just because our anniversary was on the 15th, that did not exempt him from his Valentine's Day obligations.
Not only that, but the February wedding was not my favorite occasion to remember. The chapel minister was a dirty minded man who made a comment about what DH must have been thinking simply because he offered me the wrong finger to put the ring on. (I mean, some people count the thumb so when you tell them "your third finger," they just might get it mixed up, right?)
Anyway, between my mixed feelings about celebrating the anniversary in the first place and its proximity to Valentine's Day, DH just can't get it right, poor guy. Not his fault.
So I try not to think about Valentine's Day at all. DH and I are going to a seminar on how to survive a recession, not a bad way to strengthen a marriage, eh?
If I happen to get a card or a flower for either occasion, that'll be a bonus.
See, DH and I sort of eloped on Valentine's Day. Or at least we decided to elope on Valentine's Day but by the time we got ourselves to Las Vegas and got the requisite marriage license and found an open chapel, we were actually married on February 15th.
We had a wedding all planned for June and we went ahead with it anyway, for the family's sake, but it was our little secret that we were already married.
We have friends who were married in three different ceremonies and we actually planned on having three ourselves because it sounded like fun, but it took so long to get our respective households combined and somewhat organized (in fact, that project isn't completed to my satisfaction even today....), we never did do the third one in San Francisco.
DH is not very creative when it comes to holidays. He gives cards. Only cards. From all I can fathom, that's all his family ever did for any occasion was give cards. He is quite pleased with himself when he hands me a card, and I have given up on trying to augment his ways to include even poorly thought out gifts.
All that aside, our first year, I didn't get a blessed thing on Valentine's Day. Then on the 15th, I got an anniversary card. I wasn't happy.
Carefully, I tried to explain to DH that just because our anniversary was on the 15th, that did not exempt him from his Valentine's Day obligations.
Not only that, but the February wedding was not my favorite occasion to remember. The chapel minister was a dirty minded man who made a comment about what DH must have been thinking simply because he offered me the wrong finger to put the ring on. (I mean, some people count the thumb so when you tell them "your third finger," they just might get it mixed up, right?)
Anyway, between my mixed feelings about celebrating the anniversary in the first place and its proximity to Valentine's Day, DH just can't get it right, poor guy. Not his fault.
So I try not to think about Valentine's Day at all. DH and I are going to a seminar on how to survive a recession, not a bad way to strengthen a marriage, eh?
If I happen to get a card or a flower for either occasion, that'll be a bonus.
1 comment:
Awww... sounds like you had a rough start. My own DH and I got married on spring break in SC. I didn't think he was serious either. It's never been an 'important' day in our home. We just keep plugging along.
As for Valentine's day...DH will be in Louisville KY and I will be in OH, him at the Powershow, me at the wrestling meet. We will meet about 6 PM so B can go to the tractor pull.
Here's hoping for a flower or some token of love this Valentine's day
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