[NYC GOP Chick]

OK, we're amongst friends here, so don't be shy about telling your very own stories! ;D

[jocon307]

Hubby gave me the BEST valentine's card when we were first going out. If only he had lived up to it.

I say that, because as you say, we are amoung friends here.

It kind of always makes me both sad and glad to think of it.

Do I sound liberal and stupid now? I hope not!

[dandelion]

My husband gave me a mace keyring for Valentine's day once...

but then again, he also proposed to me on our first Valentine's day together, complete with giant hearts and flowers and my name in a store window, so that's pretty cool. It still made up for the mace, which he gave to me later!

[CzarNicky]

I've never had a girlfriend around Feb. 14th. I guess I was just kind of lucky that way.

My funniest story would be that one around that particular holiday I had lost a ring that I had got for graduation and decided to purchase another one. I went to a jewelry store and was looking at mens rings when the sales clerk came up and asked if I was looking for anything. I said I was looking for a ring. The sales clerk then said, "Oh an engagement ring?" To which my response was, "Oh god no! I was just looking for a ring for me." The now sheepish clerk showed me what I was looking for. A few weeks later I found the ring I lost behind my television so I was glad I didn't buy one right then and there.

[Badray]

LOL

I just met a young lady and our first phone conversation was long and wonderful. Her first email to me a few days later asked me if I was dumping her since I didn't call her again the next night. (Dumping? We hadn't dated yet.)

I explained that I was busy and had to work hard to get all my work done before going to CPAC.

She understood and responded by asking me to ask her for our first date for this weekend -- Valentine's Day.

I have avoided her proposition email and her since. The last thing that I want is a first date on Valentine's Day or someone that pushy.

[BurbankKarl]

man, how many bitter writers are there....this is like the 5th story posted like this!

[Tabi Katz]

Distance relationships help take some of that pressure off ;)

[Mo1]

OK, we're amongst friends here, so don't be shy about telling your very own stories! ;D

To be honest .. It's just another day and no big deal

[presidio9]

OK, having dealt with an emotional tidal wave last night I think I'm justified in saying that all NY women are nuts. Is that honest enough for you? The greeting card industry is populated with latter-day facists.

[Boazo]

I hate this day!

[nkycincinnatikid]

I baked a heart shaped "box" German Chocolate cake to which I dumped almost a whole bag of tollhouse Chocolte things and covered it with Betty Crocker Chocalate iceing. She liked it. Now I'm going bowling.

[unixfox]

I never quite figured out why the sexual urge of men and women differ so much. And I never have figured out the whole Venus and Mars thing. I have never figured out why men think with their head and women with their heart.

For example, one evening last week, my girlfriend and I were getting into bed. Well, the passion starts to heat up, and she eventually says "I don't feel like it, I just want you to hold me." I said "WHAT????!!! What was that?!" She responded to my puzzled look by saying, "Can't you just love me for who I am and not what I do for you in the bedroom?" What every boyfriend/husband on the planet dreads to hear..."You're just not in touch with my emotional needs as a woman enough for me to satisfy your physical needs as a man."

Realizing that nothing was going to happen that night I went to sleep. The very next day I opted to take the day off of work to spend time with her. We went out to a nice lunch and then went shopping at a big, big unnamed department store.

I walked around with her while she tried on several different very expensive outfits. She couldn't decide which one to take so I told her we'll just buy them all. She wanted new shoes to compliment her new clothes, so I said lets get a pair for each outfit. We went on to the jewelry department where she picked out a pair of diamond earrings.

Let me tell you...she was so excited. She must have thought I was one wave short of a shipwreck. I started to think she was testing me because she asked for a tennis bracelet when she doesn't even know how to play tennis. I think I threw her for a loop when I said, "That's fine, honey." She was almost nearing sexual satisfaction from all of the excitement. Smiling with excited anticipation she finally said, "I think this is all dear, Let's go to the cashier".

I could hardly contain myself when I blurted out, "No honey, I don't feel like it." Her face just went completely blank as her jaw dropped with a baffled "WHAT???!!!"

I then said, "Really honey! I just want you to HOLD this stuff for a while.. You're just not in touch with my financial needs as a man enough for me to satisfy your shopping needs as a woman." And just when she had this look like she was going to kill me I added, "Why can't you just love me for who I am and not for the things I buy you?"

And that my FRiends is why I am single.