OT: Valentine’s Day - How will you celebrate your MGoSweetheart?

bringing and picking my kids up from youth athletics!  Very special day for my wife and I...lol.  

Taking my son to basketball practice and the wife will take the daughter to volleyball practice.  I'll put him to bed before they even get home so... yeah!  Real life shit.  Despite my wife saying she doesn't like flowers, I'll get her some tomorrow - when they're half price!

I plan to celebrate the true meaning of the holiday, namely that the accursed month of February is half over.  Probably by avoiding all retail establishments and restaurants like the plague.  No money will be spent, a perk of being mgosingle.

Happy Valentines Day to those who celebrate.

My wife and I have our civil wedding anniversary on this day. We will go to dinner at a decent restaurant... she did offer the option of "Valentine nachos" where we stay at home and eat nachos (it's a thing we've done in the past), but it's been a difficult few months so not having to cook for ourselves will be nice....

I'll spend the day being extremely thankful that my wife couldn't care less about this holiday.

We had dinner at home last night.  She grabbed sushi for an app, and I reverse seared some ny strips. 

I love grilling in the winter with a whiskey in hand.

A couple of ribeye's on the grill and probably a board game. 

Working Overtime, we'll do something Saturday.

We will give each other a hug and have a cup of Coffee together in a few minutes here, then go off and Slave away at our jobs

Dear OSU,

Thanks for being a perfectly villainous rival.  Your decades of cheating and buying teams inspired us to reach national championship heights.  Couldn’t have done it without you!.

Thanks for hiring Ryan Day.  May your tuffness stay strong and your beard never fade.  Eat shit on this very special day.

Every Valentine's Day I give my wife and daughter each a green plant. Sometimes exotic, sometimes native. Not cut flowers that will surely die, but plants that must be nursed, watered, sometimes pruned. They take effort, like our relationships. But the plants seem to work as a reminder that we all need care and attention, even when things are beautiful.

How will I celebrate? I don't. It's a manufactured holiday.

We basically we do "Valentine's Day" as a normal part of the relationship after nearly divorcing 3 years ago, all of the romantic stuff is just what we do all throughout the year. Best advice I got during the time we were rebuilding our marriage was: You have to date your wife, if you don't, someone else will.

Taking my oldest daughter to lunch and my youngest daughter to dinner. 

We are playing golf this afternoon then some dinner afterwards.

Exchanged cards, eating chocolates, going out to lunch, spending time together without phones and just talking.

Has worked for 32 years of marriage. Looking forward to 32 more.

So I woke up this morning, completely forgot it was this day and as my wife leaves for work this morning I get a sarcastic Happy Valentine's Day... Thing is in all the years we've been married we've always agreed that it was a made up bullshit holiday.

So I don't know how to feel.

I guess we'll find out later if I'm still married

Remembering that we are dust and to dust we shall return. (It’s Ash Wednesday)

Did Valentines last night.

I'm lucky enough to have a wife that doesn't really care all that much about Valentine's day
Our wedding anniversary is in a couple of weeks and that has sort of taken over Valentines day in our household.


Dear osu,
Roses are red
National Champions are maize and blue

Thats it, thats the end of the poem

I will be interviewing my wife for "Special Teams Coach" for the household.  Lots of practice snapping and holding the pigskin properly.  knowing what coverages to run during kick off.  Surprisingly, letting her know she is not to "block" any "punt" i try to attempt.

At my buddy’s house in key west staying in the Cabana. Hoping for a best behavior midnight pool rendezvous with the wifey.

So many ways I could screw this up. Wish me luck.  

My imaginary wife left me for her personal trainer, so I'm not doing anything.  

Well...I usually don't care about Valentine's Day much. However, this is my first one with my (relatively) new girlfriend -- my first long-term relationship since my 24-year marriage ended. So...this one means a little to me for the first time in a while. 

On tap for tonight: yoga class (something she got me into -- and it's changed my life), a late sushi dinner, and a movie. 

BTW: I started dating her on September 1, right before the 2023 Michigan football season kicked off (notably, we haven't lost a game since -- you're welcome, folks!)

My wife and I didn't used to celebrate it, but now with the kiddos, we make a bigger deal of it.

Got them each a plushy and book, and my wife a card and chocolates (definitely not cheap ones like the OP states, Sees is like $35/pound now, and the really nice cards are nearly $10!).

Going to a coney island and give her a foot long.