Hello FGs!
When did Valentine's Day stop being fun? Sometime after passing out candy valentines to classmates, it seems like people really don't like this holiday very much. If you do have a bf, then you have to figure out a gift. And if you don't? It's taken as a bad reminder that you're single.
Usually, I would say that's silly. We all have love in our lives, in some way our another. But even I was feeling the grudge this year. I fell into the single-girls trap of this holida  y, thinking that since no boy will be sending me chocolates or roses that I'm obviously worthless in some way.
But as I was making little cards for my friends, I opened one of those Dove chocolates with the messages inside. It said - "Be your own Valentine." And I thought, Hey, thank you very much! It's cheesy, but it was exactly what I needed to hear, now more than ever. I got so caught up, thinking like everyone else that it's bad to be single, that I forgot my #1 relationship rule: You need to love yourself, first.
So I'm thinking now my V-day plans are gonna go something like this: Get up. Goof off with my girls. Go sledding. Catch up on The Bachelor. Start that journal I've been meaning to get around to. Remember what I would really like in a relationship, besides just having one. And for the first time, in a long time, just appreciate how I am, right now.
So wherever, however, and with whomever you celebrate this year - respect yourself and what makes you so lovely. When you give yourself love, it's a whole lot easier to share it.
xoxo
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