Valentines Day 365 Days of the Year

Valentines Day is the day that LOVE is remembered. Yet we all know that love should be remembered for 365 days of the year. As a child you receive your first Valentine card by your classmates. This is when you learn who your friends are in grade school anyway.

What is LOVE? First there is love of your parents and siblings. When you are around 12 or 13 you begin to notice the opposite sex. Valentines Day takes on a whole new meaning. When you fall in love then another type of love develops. Marriage adds another kind of love as it involves your vows of loving each other in sickness and in health, til death do us part.

After being married at age 16 and my husband was 17 in the year of 1976 which means we have loved each other for 34 years we listened to these words and stayed true to them. I feel I am an expert on staying happily married and love at this stage is even more intense than I ever imagined it could be. In 34 years we have survived many good times and bad times. The point here is we stuck together and love is what it took.

Today Valentines Day is just another day as we love each other 365 days a year. For all you newly married couples use Valentines Day to remember that love develops and changes all your life but true love can only be experienced if you stay with the one you love. You will not be disappointed that you did. Today to find marriages that last is a very rare thing and when you see a couple that has been married as long as we have or longer pay heed as this is the ultimate love and cannot be experienced until you have stayed with one person through good and bad times.

Marriage is always a gamble but I can say from experience that once you reach this type of LOVE you will understand what LOVE truly is. Happy Valentines Day is just to remember that you need to say I LOVE YOU everyday of the year. Give someone a special gift if you have a hard time with the words "I Love You" so the other person knows you care. Both words and a gift are great too!