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Valentine Your Way
Valentine’s Day was always so odd to me growing up. Maybe that was simply because I wasn’t overly romantic. Or maybe it was because I found the idea of giggling while your secret crush opens your anonymous letter a tad childish. Or maybe it was simply because I didn’t understand why people suddenly loved their partner more on this one particular day. Even when I got into a relationship, I was determined not to celebrate Valentine’s Day and be that mushy couple that everyone secretly, or perhaps not-so-secretly, detests. But every year my boyfriend (now husband)’s mother would push him to organise some cute surprise for me, and we’d have a nice but relatively low-key day together. It made me realise that, yes, it is just another day in the year and, no, celebrating it doesn’t mean you love your partner anymore, but the day can be whatever you make it!
How the Women of County Music Celebrate Anti-Valentine’s Day.
To say not everyone loves Valentine’s Day would be an understatement. For every person who believes in the power of Cupid and his arrow, there are two more who think Cupid is just a baby in a diaper brandishing a crossbow.
Kristen NazzaroPublished 3 years ago in BeatLove Stinks (Yeah, Yeah)
As a 90's kid, my earliest memories of feeling emotions through the power of music were of staring wistfully out of the window with my Discman headphones on from the comfort of mum and dad's car. Avril Lavigne sang directly into my soul about her latest breakup drama, and I could pretend I was the sad girl from the film clip - which was even easier to do if it was a miserable, rainy day.
J. K. CookPublished 3 years ago in Beat27 Essential Songs for Your Anti-Valentine’s Day Playlist
Love. Love is the most potent drug to quit. Even when we are mistreated, we stay. Why is being in love so addicting? Dr. Stanton Peele Ph.D writes that love is more addictive than seven other drugs: cocaine, alcohol, valium, heroin, cigarettes, and even potato chips.
Jessica LynnPublished 3 years ago in Beat- Top Story - February 2021
How to Celebrate Valentine's Day at Your Grandfather's Deathbed
Step One: Answer the Call Take the red eye on Friday night (post eye surgery – so a true red eye, red eye) to Boston from San Diego to visit your dying grandfather.
Aj SlepianPublished 3 years ago in Beat Anti-Valentine
I've been single for years now, and have no need to do anything involving valentines day. Most people think that it's sad or even crazy for a guy like me to be single, or even not to celebrate valentines day. Shoot, people even think I'm always lonely and junk. In all reality, I'm honestly not even remotely lonely. I just treat valentine's day like my every day life; just chill and listen to music. But for valentines day, I switch up my playlist for music.
Burning of a Nose: An Anti-Valentines Day Playlist.
Lets wind the clock back to February 2013, the first time I was alone on Valentine's Day in 4 years. My relationship with my girlfriend ended the previous October. It feels weird to say, but I was actually kind of thank full for the time alone: no gifts to buy, no dinner to plan, and certainly no fucking Nicholas Sparks' film adaptations to watch.
Owen BlakePublished 3 years ago in BeatBirds who fly solo
Birds who fly solo are said to have the strongest wings.These birds welcome companionship but do not need it.Here's to striving to be such birds. Free. Free to live life to the fullest on our own terms!
Bye Bye Valentine
It's easy to get caught up in the whirlwind romances that Valentine's Day (And the Hallmark Channel) want you to be ensnared in. It's also just as easy to be beyond that and frankly just despise the holiday. This is especially true if you're single. It's incredibly easy to watch all the happy couples going about doing their couple-y things and get jealous and angry. I have a bit of advice, though. Don't do that.
Cody DunningtonPublished 3 years ago in Beat"You Can't Stop Me Lovin' Myself!": How these 7 BTS Songs taught me to Embrace Self-Love
I don't hate Valentine's Day. Expressing the adoration you feel for your partner by bringing them flowers or taking them out to dinner on a specific day is an undertaking that can always be done the other 364 days in the year but setting aside February 14th to do so is certainly a lovely gesture.
Ghezal AmiriPublished 3 years ago in BeatSuave YourSelf
Admittedly, this will not be immediately cathartic. It will be more of a suave-yourself-up-to-go-out-with-the-girls-and-the-gays feeling. Post-pandemic, of course. This playlist (listen here) is truly meant for anyone hyping themselves up, either for a night on the town or grooving by yourself, but either way dancing needs to be involved. Listen to this straight through, starting when you start getting yourself ready for the night.
Ariana GonBonPublished 3 years ago in BeatThe Mixtape for the Masochist who Loves Love and is Trying to Love on Themselves More
I took that picture a couple months into quarantine walking home from work when I was holding onto a not-so-thought-out goal of finding love in a pandemic. (To be completely honest, I took the photo in September but the explanation of my sentiment early on in quarantine life is accurate.) I even went as far to make the claim that February 14, 2021 would be my first year having a Valentine. Grandiose dramatic proclamations that I have pledged to stop making. I am sitting here on the aforementioned world-renowned date typing this so your educational guess about my relationship status is accurate. Also the subtitle is exposing my reality in plain sight.
Jada FergusonPublished 3 years ago in Beat