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To all the haters..Why do you dislike Valentine's Day?
I don't see how it's any more of a made up or commercialized holiday than any of the rest of them. Is it because people feel obligated to give a gift?
Orange: I agree that people should be showing love all year. But if that's not happening, the problem isn't Vanlentine's Day, it's the relationship.
Rod: I asked because I already know why I like it, but I honestly want to know why so many people don't. I am nearly 50 and growing up Valentine's Day was not as commercial, and not as romance/sex focused. Mom would make something with strawberries for dessert. Everyone would give out little cards and candy. Someone's mom would send cupcakes, we made crafts the week before in school. So to me it was a day to show love to friends, family etc, not just a romantic partner. I have carried that forward to today. I still make goofy little cards for friends and my kids etc. I have a lot of fond memories of it from my childhood, and I've been able to keep that alive. If I was in a crap relationship with someone who didn't show affection all year and threw a box of cheap candy and wilted roses at me once a year.
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- 7 years agoFavorite Answer
Because i never happened to celebrate on that day. I have never received chocolate from a girl on that day. And my affairs, all of the times, ended before this certain, specific holiday. Bad luck, evil eye, lousy luck, whatever. On that day i have been fed with lies, faked interest (especially from school days), irony and cheap theatrics, many times over and over, and again. If your normal, ordinary day gets to sit, it usually slips by unnoticed; on the other hand, if it is a holiday, and everyone around you celebrates, is happy and feel the love, while you mourn a lost love, betrayed and crushed feelings and this kind of stuff, this is really the worst.
- Orange SmithLv 67 years ago
To many, it's silly.
At least holidays like Christmas are (supposed to be...) religious holidays, so they have merit. Valentine's day is just really a commercially forced Holiday.
I mean, it is a nice concept. A day where we give tokens of love to those we love... but for many that's the exact problem. Why must we have to display our affection on this day, when in reality we should be doing it all year already? What makes Valentine's day any different from any other day of the year? Why is it bad not to give anything on Valentine's day, when I give flowers every other week of the year (for example)?
It's not really a super-religious holiday, and is just really a commercially forced holiday (buy our chocolates, buy our -useless- cards, buy our flowers!), which isn't bad on its own, but for many, it seems silly.
- 7 years ago
Orange Smith is right, why do we pick this one day of the year to be nice when we should be doing it all year long.
Instead of us explaining why we hate the "holiday", why don't you enlighten us and tell us why you enjoy it so much.
Source(s): Palmela Handerson - Anonymous7 years ago
No-one ever gives me anything... it's unfair.
At least at Xmas everyone gets something.
