Beyond the Usual Valentine’s Day

 

The thing about roses and a box of chocolates on Valentine’s Day is, it can often feel perfunctory, and even put a layer of camouflage over one’s real feelings.

Even when married, many of us feel awkward about saying, or asking for, the super-kind things we may secretly long to hear. It may have been years, even decades, since we received a love-letter … or wrote one. And Valentine’s Day is that one extra-special opportunity each year to figure out how to move past the usual constraints and commercial pitches to get, literally, to the heart of an important relationship.