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Is Valentine's Day canceled this year?
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Maybe.
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We are going to be talking about what it means to have love year-round, not just for one day, how to make it a lifestyle.
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We are also going to give you some different perspectives on Valentine's Day and seeing how we can move forward here in this year, specifically around Valentine's Day.
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I mean, I did hear that the people that do these grand, extravagant Valentine's Day, it's uh sometimes they say that's a red flag that they're not doing enough year-round.
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What are your thoughts?
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Woman's perspective.
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Is it a dozen roses on Valentine's Day and an extravagant dinner and all of these things once a year more impactful than doing things throughout the entire year?
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What's more impactful is those small gestures throughout the year where you're letting me know, preferably every day, that you love me, you care for me, you appreciate me, I'm feeling seen, heard, and valued.
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But when it's that one day of the extravagant gifts and we have to go to this expensive dinner that we potentially cannot afford, uh, it does start to become who, who, who am I doing this for?
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Right?
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And why am I also doing this?
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Is it because I wasn't doing things throughout the entire year and now I have to really go all out for Valentine's Day because I have to show her how much I or show my partner how much I appreciate them?
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No, it's a great, it's a great call out in perspective because if you think about it just from the math, we had some people in the comments uh in one of our recent episodes talking about the 777 rule.
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Yes, seven days having a date night, seven weeks doing one night away from home, and then seven months trying to go away for a vacation with your partner, right?
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Which again, if we didn't say anything about how much any of those things cost.
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No, uh the seven, seven, it could cost seven dollars for each of them if you find a way, right?
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Like, so but I'm just saying, I think those people that were in their feelings, and then we heard from the guy saying, Oh, you gotta be, you know, you gotta be making so much money.
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And what about the the average person that maybe can't afford these things?
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We never put a price on any of these experiences.
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And so we want to talk about that more too, because if you know, I'm sure.
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I may I feel some type of way.
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I do.
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And and just so you know, anybody that comments on our content, just know we will respond.
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On YouTube.
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On YouTube, I will we will respond.
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And so I just say that to say, you know.
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Catch me outside.
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No, I'm thinking catch me in the comments.
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But the the fact that, you know, there's no price associated with that, but there's people that will spend a thousand dollars on Valentine's Day between an expensive dinner, an expensive gift, you know, trying to do this grand gesture when you could have spent, again, instead of a thousand on one day, you could have spent a hundred each month on we did one date night.
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I bought uh, you know, flowers.
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And again, there's things that are on sale, fellas.
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So it again, it doesn't always have to be a grand gesture, it can be the simple things that you're showing that you care.
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One of the little ones that, and it's a small gesture, but it has a big impact.
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You can go get a pack of sticky notes from the dollar store and instead of getting, you know, a thousand dollars and doing all these things, you can write on that sticky note something that you appreciate about your partner and literally put that on the mirror each day, and that could be so much more impactful than getting one card once a year.
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So, do you think Valentine's Day is a bonus or a burden?
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I think Valentine's Day should be a bonus, not a burden.
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And and I'm again, I always like to speak from our perspective, and something that I love that we do, we don't even have to, we don't even technically celebrate Valentine's Day.
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We go on a date night once a week anyway.
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So it just happens to be, and we probably won't go out on actual Valentine's Day because people are probably charging more, it's super packed, it's crazy out.
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Instead, we'll probably go out the day before or after.
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But again, it also doesn't have to be a dinner.
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It could be us going out to a brunch or breakfast, it could be us going out and just and I think the key too when people think about going out, and those that were like, oh my gosh, going out, spending money.
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You could be going out, and a part of the going out is that you're not having to cook, I'm not having a cook.
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You're not having a clean, I'm not having a clean.
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It just makes us it's an usie.
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We can just go out, enjoy, have an experience, and that's the end of it versus who's gonna do these dishes, who's gonna prepare the food, what are we gonna eat?
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Like, there's so many steps that can typically go into the process, and that onus or ownership goes on somebody, typically, probably the the spouse or the wife in the in the traditional uh relationship.
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But then how do you take that burden off?
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And I think the more that we can make that a regular occurrence, a regular habit where you're hosting a date night, you're taking your partner out, you're making your partner, and this goes both ways too, because I think the other big thing of like why I'm also open on a camps on a Valentine's Day is it's so one-sided.
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Like the whole idea, all of the content you see is that there's supposed to be Valentine's Day.
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There's there's you barely see nothing on Sweetest Day.
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Right.
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Sweetest Day is supposed to be for the guys, right?
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And like you don't really, there's no there's no sections in this in Walmart for Sweetest Day cards as much.
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There's maybe one row, there's a whole section, right?
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Chocolates, cookies, uh, you know, um uh stuffed animals.
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There's all of these things.
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So I think it just it's the hype of let's have consumers consume versus is this really about the relationship.
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Correct.
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Uh so but it's interesting because you prompted a couple of things for me.
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So the first one was I personally think that it's very cute if you are married or in a long-term relationship to just ask your spouse or partner to be your Valentine.
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I think it's really cute.
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You can just go to the dollar store, you can get you a little Valentine's Day card, which they're valuable, their Valentine's Day cards are phenomenal.
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Highly recommend that.
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Um, I think it's just a cute gesture, and then you can accompany it with, like you said, potentially a flower.
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Again, not all women love flowers.
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So that may not even be something that you get, but I can guarantee if you get my favorite candy, if you bring me potentially a who doesn't want their favorite candy?
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Who doesn't want or my favorite meal or uh potentially, you know, something from a thoughtful gift to accompany you asking me to be your Valentine.
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It's just very cute, simple.
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It doesn't need to be something that's extravagant.
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So that was number one.
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Number two, when you were talking about ideas, you said the sticky notes, which I always love when you make the sticky notes for me.
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I know something that I did for you was I went to the dollar store, I got a pack of index cards, and they had a pre-made wooden box.
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And remember, I wrote on the index cards just, you know, the little notes, whether it's inside jokes or just little notes of how I feel about you.
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So whenever you want throughout the year, you can just go in your box, you pull out a card and you know how I feel about you, or it can reinforce something for you.
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So that was something that was really cute too.
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I think again, it's not about the money that's being spent on Valentine's Day, it's the thought that goes into it.
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Are you being intentional?
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Do you know what your spouse or partner actually enjoys and what they like?
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Are you then taking the next step to be able to, if you know that they enjoy, because there's some people that are Valentine's Day is like one of my favorite holidays.
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I absolutely love it.
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So if you know that, take that extra step and do something.
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But I even think let's take it back to, let's take it back to middle school.
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Do you remember when you used to buy the little Valentine's Day cards and you can put like a lollipop in it?
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Right.
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Like, and you can write a note.
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I think that's so cute.
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Again, these are very simple things that you can do so that Valentine's Day doesn't feel like a burden and all of your love is dwindled down to one day.
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But this also goes into what are those micro habits and those micro gestures that you're doing throughout the year to show me that I'm I'm feeling seen.
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I'm feeling heard, I'm feeling loved and valued in this relationship, so that I don't then have to put all of this pressure.
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I'm speaking from a woman's standpoint, and put all this pressure on Valentine's Day because yes, the world is telling me that this is the day that you show all of your love.
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But then this is almost like me, a way to force your partner if they're not showing you throughout the year that, hey, show me that I matter.
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Show me that you love me and appreciate me, and you know, do it on this day.
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And I just want to call something out because you know, I always like to speak from our experience, 10 years married, coming up on 10 years married, all of our experiences is crazy to think about.
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But because for me, if we didn't have the conversations and talk about Valentine's Day, the the request, because like to know that you want to be asked every year, will you be my Valentine?
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It's great to know.
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But I don't necessarily, I think it's cute.
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I'm not saying that's for me.
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But we have we literally just didn't we talk about this yesterday.
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I asked you, I said, Are you gonna ask me to be your Valentine's?
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Do you feel me?
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Because to me, I was like, when I asked you to be my wife, I asked you to be my Valentine Feather.
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Okay, forever, feather.
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Feather.
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But I say that to say it's good to know.
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It's like, hey.
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Ask the question.
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Don't you don't need to be in the dark.
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Ask.
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Ask the question.
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And it reminds me of, you know, asking a question, and this is for the person that gets asked.
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So if you are the the husband or if you're the partner that's like, I don't know.
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Should I ask?
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Or should I ask your kids?
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Ask your kids, or should I be honest?
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Right?
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Because a lot of times people are like, I really do want X, Y, and Z for Valentine's Day.
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I do want it to be big.
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I do want you to ask me, but I'm afraid to say that.
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So I'm gonna tell you I don't want anything, but then I have this undertone of expectation that you didn't do the grand party for me.
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Right, but Valentine's Day is not what I expect.
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Correct.
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And I think that's, and it just kind of reminds me, I mean, you know, we we were just watching Bridgerton on Netflix.
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And speaking of that, you are so you know, oh my gosh, I love a good rom-com.
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He was, but I'm trying to figure out was it the third episode that I'm over at?
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I'm ready to turn it off.
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I'm trying to say something.
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And if anybody's watching Bridgerton, I'm like, girl, you done met him at the masquerade ball.
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He knows that you're he knows that you're Cinderella.
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He's trying to figure it out.
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You keep telling him that you're not Cinderella, and you're right here in front of him.
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Oh my gosh.
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I had to explain to him the classes and the elite and the isms.
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If you don't tell him that you are from you know, hey, listen, I'm I'm royalty as well.
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They just they just hating on me.
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My stepmom is hating.
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Everybody would understand.
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So I'm thinking about that though, just as you know, as a real type of type of way.
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Feels some type of way.
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Be honest.
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Tell him, you know what, I really do want to be with you.
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That was me at the masquerade ball.
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I had to come in there and you know, X, Y, and Z because my stepmom is hating on me.
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So that's Bridgeton.
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But I said it to say there's real parallels.
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So if your partner asks you, what would you like for Valentine's Day?
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Don't say you don't want anything.
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If you want something.
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If you want something.
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And also you can be within reason.
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So if you know, and just also knowing the climate, if funds are tight or maybe financially, this isn't the year where we can go ball out.
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This is this isn't the year where there's a car in the driveway with a bow on it for Valentine's Day.
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No.
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This may not be that.
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No.
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If it isn't, you can be like, man, I'd love a dinner together, or I'd love to be able to have a sitter and just for me and you to enjoy time together or candlelit or for us to be able to go to a movie or something that you guys maybe haven't done in a while.
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It doesn't have to be grand, but I think the key is asking, finding common ground, and then also being realistic.
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Because if you love Valentine's Day and you know you want a brand new car, but that is not what the finances say for this year.
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Let's go ahead and adjust and make it something that we can enjoy.
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Maybe it's taking you to the auto show.
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Wasn't a new car, but you got to sit in a new car.
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So I'm just saying, I'm just using examples in real time where let me try to meet you in the middle.
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I agree.
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I do to your point about the effective communication.
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We always have to remember that although you may have been with your spouse or your partner for some time, they cannot read your mind.
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So as much as we ladies, I'm gonna put myself into it as well.
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You hear me huffing and puffing, you hear these doors kind of have a little bit more uh push and oomph to them.
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You know I'm angry, you know I'm upset, and he's looking around like, what's happening?
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Is she all right?
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Brother ain't had a home cooked meal in a couple days.
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Uh never.
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But three squares.
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Yes.
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Okay.
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So I think uh there's that piece too.
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But also, when we talked earlier about in how we opened the episode, is Valentine's Day canceled with everything that's happening in specifically America, but that's happening in the world right now.
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It's okay to not every year have something extravagant and just absolutely extraordinary.
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And what we're finding is that the more intentional and thoughtful people are about gift giving or uh, and right, what what's your partner's love language and making sure that you kind of focus and hone in around that?
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Those are all just key components to making Valentine's Day every day.
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And so it's really interesting because the other thing that you should be doing is also checking in emotionally, right?
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Where is your partner's love tank?
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If you're if your partner's, if you guys have had, you know, um, some time where you haven't had that date night or you haven't had the intentional interactions, then that may be something that does need to be a priority, where it's like, hey, I don't want anything else, but I do want us to go out, sit down.
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It's just us.
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We have a babysitter for the kids, and we are just gonna be connecting on our own.
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The other thing we always like to say too is getting conversation cards.
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There are couples' conversation cards that you can find almost at any store where it's asking those second-level, third level questions that you may need to revisit sometimes, that may be new questions that you've never asked each other.
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But again, what are the other ways?
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Because all this comes down to connection, right?
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We're looking for that emotional and that deep connection from our partner and spouse.
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How can we get there?
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And I think the conversation cards, that's something something we also like to do is bring those.
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And it's and I just love that you mentioned the conversation cards because so often we hear people talk about that they grew apart.
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The relationship grew apart.
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We just we weren't connecting anymore.
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Yes.
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But yet then years we're roommate.
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We're roommate.
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But then you think about that person on their journey trying to find somebody else and find somebody new, and now you're on this discovery journey to get to know somebody else.
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When in actuality, you could have been sitting down at the table with your partner asking the curated questions maybe that come from a relationship list or something you found on Pinterest that you can ask, hey man, what what are some of the dreams that you've been having of things you want to accomplish in the next couple of years?
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What's an area that you want us to work on together?
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What's something that maybe we want to do from a family and a collective experience together?
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And so allow it to be just uh thought, you know, thought starters uh pouring in and asking each other, how can I support you?
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How can I continue to love on you?
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And I think that makes a huge difference too.
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Absolutely.
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Let's come in, let's jump into some key stats because we've kind of touched on this throughout the episode.
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But many couples say they feel pressure around Valentine's Day expectations.
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Oh yeah.
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X, but you just mentioned brand new car in the driveway, but what are asking your spouse what's your and maybe we reframe it?
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What is your expectation for Valentine's Day?
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And then you can tell.
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And also, because some people may say I want the whole weekend.
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Paint a picture.
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Paint a picture for me.
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Paint a picture for me.
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What would be ideal or your perfect Valentine's Day?
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Correct.
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What would that look like?
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Because she might say, you know what, I don't know.
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You know what?
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And this year, I'm just looking for me waking up by the ocean.
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Oh.
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A hundred balloons, chocolate.
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You like, hold on.
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Okay.
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This is this is a this is a I've got to plan this 12 months in event.
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This might have to be a 2027 Valentine's Day, I'm planning based on what she paints as the picture of the vision.
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I think two adding in, I realize that that is your expectation.
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Correct.
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Bringing it to reality.
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This is where we are.
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If I can get you 10, 10 balloons from the dollar stove, are you okay with that?
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Come on.
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Are you okay with Are you okay if I put ocean sounds on?
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You know what I'm saying?
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The bows is hitting with the ocean sounds.
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Surround sound is the way.
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Or if I take you to a, you know, if you, well, it's winter in a lot of places.
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Arizona was fortunate to not have uh winners.
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So you can actually go to a lake out here if you wanted to.
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Um, but you know, be finding, okay, this is your expectation.
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This is where we are in reality.
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What's the common ground?
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What's that middle space look like for us is key.
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Financial stress is one of the top predictors of relationship conflict.
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Absolutely.
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100%.
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When the money is funny and the change is strange, you start to really understand what you're dealing with.
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Yes.
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Because also, we live in an era where it's so easy to be looking, having your eyes on somebody else's paper.
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I.e., you're on Instagram looking at what everybody else posts on Valentine's Day.
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Valentine's Day is almost a little bit like Thanksgiving.
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Thanksgiving's my favorite holiday.
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Don't come at me like that.
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Here's where I'm gonna connect the dots.
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When you think about Thanksgiving, what does everybody post on Thanksgiving?
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Their plate.
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Plate.
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What they ate, sometimes family, but you always get that plate of like, this is what I was grabbing on.
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Typically Valentine's Day, you know, what are my gifts?
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Did this person have a Valentine?
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What did the setup get the Cartier Love bracelet?
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That's expensive taste.
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Cartier Love bracelet.
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I just want y'all to know that's expensive taste.
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I just want y'all to know that is not that is not an expectation for this.
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That is not an expectation for me.
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But I appreciate you calling it out because again, Cartier has a has a job to do as well.
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They do.
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So they're running the ads and they're like Tiffany and Co.
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Tiffany and Co.
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The perfect Valentine's Day dude.
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You know, they got the advertisements running.
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You want to turn the TV off.
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Yeah.
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Hold on, what do you mean a thousand dollars Valentine's Day necklace?
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But the reality is, right?
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Everybody has some form of expectation or thought of what it looks like.
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I'm grateful that for us, it looks like me asking you to be my Valentine, although I do know the answer.
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But asking you us still getting together and going out at some point one-on-one where we're just spending time together.
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We're not talking about work.
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And again, I didn't put a dollar amount next to it.
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I did not say it's a thousand dollar dinner.
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We come on, people don't know.
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We use we use we love a good coupon, a a BOGO.
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Ooh, chat.
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Come on now.
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And if you don't know a BOGO, boom, buy one, get one for call it a twofer.
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So those things make a huge difference to still be able to have the experiences, but you can do it on a budget.
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You can do it and make it work for you and fit your lifestyle.
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Yes, I quickly want to give a really cute idea that you can do at home.
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And if you've seen on social their uh I forgot what the company's name is, but what they will do is you send a photo of yourself, or you can send a photo of the two of you.
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They will put it into the paint as numbers.
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Do you ever remember that?
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I did see that.
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Yes, it's so cute.
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Get you a little, you know, glass of wine, a little charcuterie board, right?
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Something very cute.
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But I think the the um the paintings that you can purchase are maybe 20 bucks.
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So at home, you know, let's say if you have uh 50 bucks or less, even 25 or less, right?
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Figure out what your budget is, and then you can make something really special, intentional, and thoughtful within your budget.
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But I just that was something else that came to me was like, yeah, are you a paint and sip at home?
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You have a bottle of wine or non-alcoholic, right?
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Just again, where is the connection that we are looking for on Valentine's Day?
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Because yes, sure about the gifts, but it it's ultimately about the connection.
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I just want to I want to sit down and have a conversation and and let's let's have that you know emotional intimacy.
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So couples who regularly express appreciation report higher relationship satisfaction.
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That makes sense.
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I mean, if if you think about it, people want to be valued, they want to be seen, heard, valued, but also appreciated.
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So the same way you want to be appreciated at work or you'd want to be appreciated on a sports team, same thing works in a marriage or a relationship.
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You want to be appreciated, and that matters.
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And for those that aren't expressing that, Valentine's Day may be a great opportunity, but today, you listening to this is a great opportunity.
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Yes, absolutely.
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So just making sure that you know, love isn't built on grand gestures or one time per year.
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Uh, it's built in small, consistent, intentional moments.
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Uh, and just making sure that again, what are you all as a couple doing in order to stay connected, to stay in tune, to stay uh in communication with each other, to make sure that whatever the expectations are and reality, we can find a common ground.
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And it's not that you're forgetting about a day, because we have a whole, you know, we've heard men that completely forget about Valentine's Day.
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And I quickly want to throw this out there because you did say sweetest day.
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I I personally believe that Valentine's Day should not be catered towards just women, and that women should get their husband, spouse, uh, confidant.
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You should get them something too.
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It should be mutual.
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I don't think that it should be so heavily gifted towards women.
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Um, I do believe that it needs to be a bit more balanced in that way.
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So that again, we're showing love for each other.
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It's not one person showing love for the other person, um, but it's just a little bit more balanced in that way.
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But a lot of times I'm hearing too, though, it's because I I haven't been showed love or the appreciation validation throughout the year that on Valentine's Day, I'm looking to towards to my husband or partner to be able to fulfill the rest of the year in this one day.
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But then when that's not to your expectation, or if it's forgotten about, or if it's kind of lackluster, then all of a sudden it's well, you know, that this person just doesn't love me.
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They don't love me, they don't appreciate me, I don't feel valued.
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And I don't know if that's necessarily always the case, but be, you know, being as vocal as you can and as effective as you can, I think that's really key.
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It it matters.
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And it also, just to that point, when you are selective on what things you remember as men, because you know, if we're not forgetting to put in, if you're not forgetting to put in that bed at the sports book or forgetting when that Super Bowl is, which that's a whole nother conversation.
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Next year, Super Bowl is on Valentine's Day.
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Oh, goodness, goodness, goodness.
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Is it is it is it is it canceled back to back years?
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Is it is it come on now?
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Is it too much if people had a Super Bowl party and be like Valentine's Day?
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Valentine's Day.
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So, you know, may it be a hybrid Valentine's Day, you know, date, watching a game.
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But I just think, again, if you can prioritize and know when your favorite team comes on, knowing when that game is is tipped off and all of those things and plan your week around it, you could at the very least plan to ask your partner what the expectation is, how you can be supported and really pour in in your own household on Valentine's Day.
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Yes, and get the kids involved.
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Kids are get really excited about you know celebrating.
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It's like Mother's Day or or you know, just getting kids involved and and kids have really great ideas.
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Don't underestimate what your kid, the ideas that your kids have.
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And they're gonna be really excited to I want to make mommy something or I want to make daddy something or setting the bar high for the kids as well.
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Yeah, also of what the kids deserve, right?
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Of of a Valentine for Valentine's Day or just love throughout the entire year.
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