14 February
Valentine's Day! The day of romance, love, and above all, SEX!
It's a day to express one's love to the one one loves, to enjoy being together and make today a special day, with flowers, wine & food. (and maybe new lingerie!)
Bollocks.
Ok, I'll accept Valentine's Day as being good for teenagers to exchange cards and let the other person know you're interested, but if you're in an actual relationship and think Valentine's Day has any kind of place in your life, then you've missed the point.
If you're in a relationship with someone and using the dreaded "L" word with each other, then you ought to have no need for a special day to say "I love you", because you should be saying it and showing it every day - and lots of times every day - so if you're not doing that, you're just playing at relationships, not in one.
My wife would start checking my pockets and cellphone if I ever gave her flowers on VD. (I'm going to shorten that to VD from here on; much easier to type, and quite appropriate given the number of STI/STD cases that will arise from today's love-in.)
And let's face facts; of those people in relationships, lots of them will use VD as a chance to get a bit on the side. As noted in the Herald today, there are lots of people making shitloads of money out of cheat-on-your-spouse sites, and VD is bonanza day for them.
Just have a bit of a look at that article and see if you can spot the piece which drove me to get my keyboard out...
What do you reckon?
If you guessed the guy who said having sex on the side has saved his marriage, give yourself a chocolate fish, because that's my boy!
I wonder if his wife would agree with him, and my guess is not. I also wonder how he'd react if he came home to find another man's semen splattered over his wife's pubic hair. On that, I'm going to guess he wouldn't show quite the same degree of liberality, because that kind of controlling shithead would die in shame at another man having sex with his wife.
Coincidentally, I have a brother who made the exact same comment many years ago - that his marriage would never have survived if he hadn't porked every land-girl and female farm worker in a 20-mile radius. In his case, I'm damned sure his wife would not have agreed.
I believe that kind of statement displays massive insecurity, because a truly arrogant bloke wouldn't try to rationalise his actions, he'd be doing it because he can. Only a tiny-minded selfish git would try to justify it by putting his own sexual desires above the fidelity that should be a cornerstone in a successful relationship.
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