‘Love is the air,’ with TVs, stores, magazines etc all gearing up for Valentine’s Day. Everywhere you turn hearts and flowers dominate the displays. But love is more than just a romantic notion written about by songwriters, poets, novelists and movie script writers.
Love can mean different things to different people, but I read a couple of good descriptions of love in a novel I’ve been reading. One was, ‘Allowances must be made for the people we love.’ That’s what Mary Ann was talking about too in her blog about unconditional love. It doesn’t depend on what they do but who they are. No-one is perfect and we’re heading for trouble if we expect them to be. Sometimes our spouse is going to hurt or disappoint us or not act as we’d like them to.
Yesterday I heard a woman in the shop buying a Valentine’s Day gift and card for her husband. ‘Just because he doesn’t celebrate Valentines Day, doesn’t mean I can’t.’ she said. It ended up a case of daughter influencing her mother, because then her mother went also started looking for a Valentine’s Day gift to buy.
They were making allowances, that just because their guys didn’t think the day was important, they still wanted to let them know how important they were to them.
It’s a bit like the song from ‘The King and I’, so often your spouse might get caught up in other things and seem to be uncaring or pre-occupied but every now and then he’ll do or say, ‘something wonderful.’ When we’re going through times when our spouse seems far away and disinterested, or when we’re struggling through hard times or rocky patches in marriage, we need to make allowances and remember the ‘something wonderful’ moments. The times when your spouse has said and done that special little thing that shows you how much they love you. And think of how you can show your spouse your love not just on Valentine’s Day but every day.
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