What cha doin for your sweetie??

Eating my own darn chocolate!!

Unfortunately I have to work on Valentines Day and we have a gig Saturday night after a full day of work then, too. So by the time I get home Sunday night I will probably be out of it! Actually we will probably have a quiet evening at home which will be nice - a couple of ribeyes on the grill might be in order. I often get Kat flowers or something but this year I think she would rather have some drum heads!

I'll be at the gig ...so, Sunday night we will go to dinner etc.

d) We're not into St. Valentine's.

(e) I am single and quite without a loved one.

However, if I had a girlfriend, count me in Vince's crowd. Vince, I don't want to start a cultural-religious debate on the forum, but if you'd like to hear my objections to Valentine's Day, you should PM me. They have everything to do with it's history. The story is quite fascinating.

For most guys with a wife/girlfriend, Valentine's Day is not about history, it's about expectations!

No big plans here but we usually exchange a few treats; while I may not always agree with what seems like Hallmark-and-chocolate-factories-sponsored special days (every day should be special), I'm all for taking a little extra step on a so-called-special-day if only because I know it's gonna bring my wife a little sparkle in her day and she appreciates that we take any and all occasions to celebrate what we have together.

Yep.

Any excuse to celebrate life is pretty much fine with me.

Yeah, that's me too.

And, call me tight fisted but if we go out to dinner and stuff on San Val's, it's going to cost us more than if we went on other days.

So it seems kind of pointless to demonstrate my love by feathering the restauranteur's nest with money my wife and I could be spending on our life together during them other 364 days. Does that make any sense?

Of course. I won't go into the history of the whole thing here, but let it be known that as a guy who subscribes to individualist feminism, I don't understand why a woman would want to celebrate a holiday where they beat women with strips of bull flesh to instill fertility.

History aside, I'm more of the surprise someone on a random day of the year kind of guy, anyway. I don't see why we dedicate one day to love. It implies that I shouldn't love my significant other on other days of the year.

Anyway, the trick is finding a chick who agrees with me about all this. I know a few.

Yea, I really agree with you, Vince, in the sense that I do NOT think something like Valentines day should be based on spending money. For me, it's more an opportunity, or maybe even just a societal reminder, for us to take the time to recognize our spouse. I think that can be done in as many ways as you can think of. Heck, I just write a handwritten note, or make her breakfast in bed, or any little thing like that.

My wife and I will be celebrating our 17th Wedding Anniversary on the 27th. Of course I recognize and appreciate my wife all year round,
but one day set aside specifically is a good thing particularly for married couples. I'm not going to bother with dinner at a restaurant on Valentines Day. I did that to impress her when we were courting, don't need to do that anymore. I'm thinking I will make a surf and turf dinner of steak with either lobster or shrimp and a nice dessert of strawberries and whipped cream.
We will go out to dinner when we have a weekend getaway sans kids at the end of the month .

Although my wife tells me to not get flowers, I know she loves them along with my own handwritten Valentine.
I'm a hearts and flowers type of guy and just about every woman responds to this, even if they say they don't.
Hey it's not like I don't have alterior motives.

LOL.............yea, Ricky, I always send flowers to my ladies; My wife, my mom, and my mother in law.

Okay since you said it. I admit it.. I give a card and flowers to my Mother-in-law too..

LOL!!!

I didn't say that she deserves them. I just said that I sent them to her.