
Hey Real fam, have you ever realized that some couples break up on valentine’s day?
Do you know why-then you can tell us in the comments however if you don’t know I’ve got some behind-the-post texts you can relate to or your friend can relate to; guess what?-share with them before you forget it.
What is valentine’s day?
Valentine’s Day is a holiday when lovers express their affection with greetings and gifts. It is also called St. Valentine’s Day. The holiday has expanded to express affection between relatives and friends.
I’ll talk about a few things here: greetings, gifts, and expressing affection between relatives and friends. Finding someone asking for a particular gift for themselves sounds creepy because a gift is a thing given willingly to someone without payment; expressing affection is done in different ways depending on the person. Lastly, this valentine’s day isn’t only for lovers because it has expanded even to families.
Why is it referred to as couples and how does it start?
Valentine’s Day, also called Saint Valentine’s Day or the Feast of Saint Valentine, is celebrated annually on February 14. It originated as a Christian feast day honouring a martyr named Valentine. Through later folk traditions, it has become a significant cultural and commercial celebration of romance and love in many regions of the world.
There are a number of martyrdom stories associated with various Saint Valentines connected to February 14, including an account of the imprisonment of Saint Valentine of Rome for ministering to Christians persecuted under the Roman Empire in the third century. According to an early tradition, Saint Valentine restored sight to the blind daughter of his jailer. Numerous later additions to the legend have better related it to the theme of love: an 18th-century embellishment to the legend claims he wrote the jailer’s daughter a letter signed “Your Valentine” as a farewell before his execution; another tradition posits that Saint Valentine performed weddings for Christian soldiers who were forbidden to marry.
The 8th-century Gelasian Sacramentary recorded the celebration of the Feast of Saint Valentine on February 14. The day became associated with romantic love in the 14th and 15th centuries when notions of courtly love flourished, apparently by association with the “lovebirds” of early spring. In 18th-century England, it grew into an occasion for couples to express their love for each other by presenting flowers, offering confectionery, and sending greeting cards (known as “valentines”). Valentine’s Day symbols that are used today include the heart-shaped outline, doves, and the figure of the winged Cupid. In the 19th century, handmade cards gave way to mass-produced greetings. In Italy, Saint Valentine’s keys are given to lovers “as a romantic symbol and an invitation to unlock the giver’s heart”, as well as to children to ward off epilepsy (called Saint Valentine’s Malady)
Saint Valentine’s Day is not a public holiday in any country, although it is an official feast day in the Anglican Communion and the Lutheran Church. Many parts of the Eastern Orthodox Church also celebrate Saint Valentine’s Day on July 6 in honour of Roman presbyter Saint Valentine, and on July 30 in honour of Hieromartyr Valentine, the Bishop of Interamna.
After all the sources shared around the net you can 100% testify that valentine’s day is a day of love not a day of obligations or a day to feel pressured by anyone or anything.
Ayt, here we go with behind-the-posts series that will shock you and give you the whole image behind the statuses, posts, tweets, etc.…this will show you how rude some girls[not only girls] even guys get and break up with their loved ones because they didn’t get what they asked for or just because they wanted something similar offered to their friends[even some social media gifts]
Have you ever felt that kind of pressure from someone you love?- if you have felt it then that’s not love. What’s love then? “I think love is not a place to make you feel uncomfortable, unloved, unvalued, pressured, little, useless, If you want to check out some of the interesting facts that will blow your mind, check out this website https://www.joinonelove.org or the video lovers go straight to this link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGaF37tj9So&list=PLobwSLJPTQ59Id_JBI6thVbDrY1x6dV1-
Well, let’s see some behind the post series and find out how valentine’s day has become very toxic in different relationships, a challenge to some who are feeling compared to social media and the beginning of breakups.
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