St Valentine's Day Is Coming Up Feb. 14th

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I was sitting in a coffee shop this morning when a young lady walked into the place and asked for Keith, she had an enormous bunch of long-stemmed red roses from the nearest florist. He looked totally embarrassed. I thought it was a very romantic gesture. So, I thought nobody is going to give me a present, so I went into a perfume shop and bought myself my favourite perfume, ARPEGE by LANVIN (Paris), now I'm as happy as a pig in poo.
 
The years have etched lines upon my face,
But in your eyes, I still see youth and grace.
Through sunny days and storms we’ve weathered deep,
You are the promise that I faithfully keep.

Our hands, now trembling, hold a tighter grip,
On this long, sacred, and joyous trip.
No treasure found on earth can ever be,
As rich as all these years you've given me.

With silver hair and heart still beating fast,
I celebrate the love that we have cast.
More than a valentine, you are my life,
My steady anchor, my beloved wife.

So let the seasons change and ages climb,
Our love remains, untouched by time.
 
horseless carriage said:
The years have etched lines upon my face,
But in your eyes, I still see youth and grace.
Through sunny days and storms we’ve weathered deep,
You are the promise that I faithfully keep.

Our hands, now trembling, hold a tighter grip,
On this long, sacred, and joyous trip.
No treasure found on earth can ever be,
As rich as all these years you've given me.

With silver hair and heart still beating fast,
I celebrate the love that we have cast.
More than a valentine, you are my life,
My steady anchor, my beloved wife.

So let the seasons change and ages climb,
Our love remains, untouched by time.
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That was absolutely beautiful. Your wife is a very lucky lady. 💞💝
 
oscash said:
That was absolutely beautiful. Your wife is a very lucky lady. 💞💝
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Thank you for such a kind compliment. We are a fortunate couple to have found one another. Back in our teenage years we enjoyed dancing, the Latin and Ballroom type of partner dancing. We often competed, not that we were that good, but competing was all part of the fun.
There was a big event well away from our London homes and I asked her father for permission to share a room to save on our very limited costs.

Her Dad was very much the strict, old school. "If you want to sleep with my daughter, you will marry her." he told me. To his, and just about everyone else's surprise, that's what we did. My bride was eighteen and I was twenty-two. All that happened back in 1968, so this year we will celebrate our fifty-eighth year of matrimony.

We soon learned that spats happen but we made a rule to go to bed friends, we always kissed and made up. We also learned to give each other space, and with that, went trust and respect. Communication is also very important, talk through differences. From that, my lady would always make the effort when I showed intimacy, and she would joke if it was her time of the month: "Your timing's crap," she jested.

The toughest part is yet to come in that one of us has to bereave the other, but if we continue to live as we do we might just emulate my grandparents who also married young, outlived their only child, (my mother died young from TB aged just 36) and passed away withing a few months of each other following seventy-five plus years of marriage.
 
Valentine’s Day: the one day we’re reminded that chocolate is cheaper than therapy and hugs last longer than roses. Officially, it’s a perfect day to say, “I notice you,” and that never goes out of style. Now, maybe if I could actually see you, I’d notice. Until then, consider this my socially distant nod. Virtual chocolate and hugs included. Happy Valentine’s Day. Naturally.
 
St. Valentine’s Day is the day, now synonymous with commercialised romance, but rooted in the tragic story of a 3rd-century Roman martyr who was beaten and beheaded for refusing to renounce his faith and for secretively marrying couples to prevent men from being sent to war.

Valentine risked his life to marry lovers when Emperor Claudius II outlawed marriage, believing single men made better soldiers. He chose to defend the sanctity of intimate human bonds over obedience to a tyrant. While in prison, Valentine befriended his jailer’s blind daughter, Julia, tutoring her and bringing light into her life. Legend says he restored her sight, and just before his execution on February 14, he wrote her a final note signed: From your Valentine.

Rather than focusing on his own, impending death, Valentine used his final days to comfort a young girl, highlighting perhaps, the most poignant message: true love is thoughtful and altruistic, not self-absorbed. The date of his execution was adopted by the Church to replace the pagan festival of Lupercalia. It is deeply ironic that a day commemorating a violent, gory end has transformed into a celebration of love.

Despite being the patron saint of lovers, Valentine is also the patron of travellers, epilepsy, and beekeepers, and was removed from the general Roman calendar in 1969 due to the lack of concrete, historical details about his life, leaving only his legacy of kindness. Ultimately, the most poignant reflection is that the holiday's namesake died for a profound, self-sacrificing love, transforming a day of suffering into one of affection and connection.
 
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