I was with a girl for 3 years, and though I was never a fan of the seemingly card company fabricated holiday and did random sweet things all the time 3 years ago I proposed on Valentine's day.

We were in college, and I'd spent the 2 weeks prior telling her my parents would be gone for the holiday so we would go to their place and have the whole house to ourselves for the weekend (Vday was a Friday I believe), etc. When I went to pick her up I told her on the hour drive down there that their plane had been cancelled and they'd be there, so we wouldn't be able to be alone and to make it up to her I took her out ro a favorite place to eat, then to see Daredevil (opening day, she wanted to see it). After the movie I blindfolded her and took her to a nice hotel suite I'd gotten that morning and covered in different color roses. I stood her in front of a full length mirror and took off the blind fold, so she saw us standing together, me holding the ring, and the room with roses everywhere all at once.

About 2 weeks later I found out she had been sleeping with a 'friend' from her school for a while. Things went down hill at that point. Since then I haven't had a relationship last for more than 3 months. At first it was damn lonely, but I grew used to it over time... and just recently I met someone who made me realize how lonely I've really been all over again.

A lot of people love saying you can't be happy with someone else until you're happy alone... but no one says and believes that while they're alone, because being alone for a long period of time is hell.

awww thats soo sad but im glad u found someone in the end

Don't get me wrong I love romance and I do have a special someone in my life but it seems that just like any other so called special day during the year Valentine's day has got over rated and comercialized.   To me showing the one that you love romance should be EVERY day of the year instead of just February 14th and to me in many ways some couples use it to suck up to their partner and that is wrong.

I agree. I think that if you want to show the one you love how much you care about them, it should be done everyday, not just one day out of the year. It doesn't even have to be anything really big, either, it can just be something simple, like a few words of appreciation for being there, maybe an occasional card, a rough night of sex (lol). Making an entire holiday about doing something that we should be doing every day is just a sensless venture.