by Louie Tacker

I visited this blog of my friend today, and I chuckled dearly all the way over here in America. Well, I guess men are men and women are women no matter what part of the world we live in. LOL

As I read the entry on “He doesn’t bring me flowers anymore (at all)!, I felt I wanted to share some of my thoughts over this age-old issue of many men’s failure to present and please their women with flowers on Valentine’s. Though a little late and past the day of hearts, still February is the month of love, so I believe it is still timely, for after all, the subject on men-women relationship is timeless.

I have always been a man of the belief that if you need to remind a person to be nice or romantic, it all becomes meaningless. For example, I would rather receive a gift on a regular day from my wife than on Valentine’s Day, which has turned to nothing more than a commercial spam day for big business.

So many, many years ago, while dating my woman (who would be my wife) for a few years, I would surprise her on just any old day, with flowers or something else that I KNEW she would deem as romantic (flowers don’t do it for her, lol!) Well, I think she liked it, and every so often I would surprise her with some kind of romantic gift on a day which was just ordinary - with something like a note thanking her for being her and putting up with me all these years.

On Valentine’s Day, we are ironically quite un-romantic. We just give each other a simple card or a little trinket or joke type of gift because we both realize that we don’t need a planned day to tell us to be romantic. Ladies, just think about it, even if your hubby brings you flowers on Valentine’s Day, even with no one telling him to do so or reminding him - it was still forced on him by the mere pressure of the occasion and its commercial effect.

This is my advice ladies out there who want their men to be more romantic. When you drop your hints or flat outright demand more romanticism from them, tell them it will mean more if they do it randomly. Now, picture the scene, ladies. You worked most of the day, got the kids off to school, worked more, shopped for groceries, ran home, cooked dinner, cleaned up, then after dinner on this otherwise normal day, which can be any day of the year, you finally sit down as hubby sits next to you to finally join you and he whihps out a dozen roses or some other romantic expression of his love to you. Now, is that not better than getting them on Valentine’s Day? Let me know, I am curious of your responses…

Well, ladies, good luck and Happy Month of Hearts from America. I hope you get all the attention you want and deserve on any unplanned romantic day. I also do hope your men will be able to read this and surprise you at any day of the year, because yes, there are many men who don’t always show their love and appreciation and don’t understand the importance of being romantic to the women they love. But then again, we all take the best things in our lives for granted.

Well, I guess I myself still need lessons for being romantic. Haha!