Men complain about the fact that regardless of the significance of their gifts to their ladies, they are never satisfied because other female friends get more expensive or more extravagant present, from their boyfriends or husbands, than theirs. Did Saint Valentine, the symbolism of romance turn into a competition in which the individual who is the most capable financially will win it? What did happen to us? Did we become so greedy to ignore the significance of the romantic gesture regardless of its materialistic value? Don't we believe anymore in the adage that states: The thought that counts? Do we evaluate the depth of our significant others love with the monetary value of their gestures?
Whom should we blame for turning an event, during which we should focus on permitting our romantic notions to be displayed freely, into a commercial occasion where merchants vie for our money?
Asking ladies about their preference pertinent to receiving tokens of appreciation from their men on Valentine day, most expressed the desire to hear the magical words "I love you". However, the majority of women agreed that if men are too timid to utter those words, they should pay a hefty price by buying extravagant gifts for them. Most of them preferred to receive a bouquet of flowers with an attached poem written by the gentleman himself. Some ladies expressed that they despise receiving a card written by someone else and just signed by the boyfriend or the husband. Few were adamant that the men should spend time on finding an appropriate means to express their love for their ladies. Something such as a photo album containing all their photos together with comments from the gentleman about each photo in the album would be a wonderful way to display one's love for one's lady. Some ladies who like chocolate would love to receive a box of their favorite chocolate.
On romantic occasions such as Saint Valentine day, I often wonder about if romance is a sentiment or it is a concept that we are conditioned to believe in and bow to the urge to apply it in our lives. I posed the question to men and women of a diverse age groups and backgrounds. The majority of women were inclined to believe that it is a sentiment that not all individuals possess it while most men perceived it as a concept that we are conditioned by the media to believe in and attempt to apply in our relationships with the opposite gender.
Regardless of your views pertinent to romance, you should attempt to condition yourself to go with the flow by displaying your romantic notions toward the lady in your life with an original gesture to achieve a harmonious coexistence with her. Otherwise, you will be the target of her wrath of anger for being insensitive to her romantic needs.
As for you ladies, please, attempt to be graceful in accepting your men's gifts regardless of their monetary values or originalities. Accomplishing that task will encourage the men in your lives to continue with the tradition. Otherwise, they may believe that it would be useless to try to fulfill your romantic notions with some symbolic token of love. They could justify their negligence by the fact that they attempted and their gestures were not appreciated by their significant others.