Yes, a celebration of love in all its forms! My grandmother always sent me a Valentines card as a child and I have kept all of them. Along with all the Valentines cards I've received down the years. The Greeks had 6 types of love from familial to erotic. Ive spent a lifetime musing of the definition of love. Courtly and romantics love has taken over in the Western today as a basis for marriage, but love is so much more, and takes work over the years. Love tests us to our limits. Without love we do not know the depths of grief.
I remember my now husband telling me he loved me in Berlin on the eve of my birthday. Wed not long got together and we're in that crazy place of passionate love. We'd had had a few drinks and I responded to his noble declaration with "but what is love anyway?" Unfortunately he did not see the funny side and spent the night sat in the kitchen nursing his bruised Leo pride.Oops 💃🌹💃
This is just what I needed. I couldn't find the words this morning but kept thinking how we minimise love in this western culture of ours and how we need to expand our hearts and celebrate love in all it's forms.
Well said! I agree, that there's an unhealthy emphasis on romantic love in the West. Our hearts are bigger than that - thank you for sharing!
I would like to note that I think you may have missed adding a link to your MIL's poem - at least, there's none that I can find in the post.
Thank you o much Laura! Once an editor... :) I have made the correction. A subscribe notification had pushed the link all the way down! Happy V Day!
Yes, a celebration of love in all its forms! My grandmother always sent me a Valentines card as a child and I have kept all of them. Along with all the Valentines cards I've received down the years. The Greeks had 6 types of love from familial to erotic. Ive spent a lifetime musing of the definition of love. Courtly and romantics love has taken over in the Western today as a basis for marriage, but love is so much more, and takes work over the years. Love tests us to our limits. Without love we do not know the depths of grief.
I remember my now husband telling me he loved me in Berlin on the eve of my birthday. Wed not long got together and we're in that crazy place of passionate love. We'd had had a few drinks and I responded to his noble declaration with "but what is love anyway?" Unfortunately he did not see the funny side and spent the night sat in the kitchen nursing his bruised Leo pride.Oops 💃🌹💃
Aw! Natives of Leo don't like insignificance or questioning bright sunshine on our idea of self! :)
But hey, you are still married today! Happy V Day!
This is just what I needed. I couldn't find the words this morning but kept thinking how we minimise love in this western culture of ours and how we need to expand our hearts and celebrate love in all it's forms.
Thank you ❤
Lovely to hear! Happy All Hearts Day!!