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Ah, Valentine’s Day.
Either you love it, or you hate it. There’s Cupid, flowers, hearts, chocolate. Each year I oscillate between the love and the hate- some years, I love what it represents. Love in Action. The beauty and affirmation of love.
And some years, I’ll admit I’m in a spiral of deep eye rolls and sighs at the commercial aspect of showing someone you love, that you do in fact, love them.
Valentine’s Day can be an affirmation of love to your spouse, partner, your love interest.
But as a single woman, I do have a ritual of a “self love day” on V-Day: I draw a milk bath, with rose petals, and a hot cup of tea and a poetry book, and I relax. I will sit in the bathtub for an hour- sometimes more, and listen to the sounds of Ella Fitzgerald For Lover’s record. And I remind myself that I am worthy of being adored.
Whether you’re in love with someone or in love with yourself (and hopefully both!); in a relationship with someone or single and looking (or not looking), Valentine’s…
