You don't have to be, but woe betide any bloke that ignores the 14th completely.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Thu 6 Feb 2014, 19:37, 1 reply, 11 years ago)

Rather depends upon your choice
It's always been a piss-take day for former partners - we've gone out deliberately to watch couples not talking to each other but going through the motions for form's sake.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Thu 6 Feb 2014, 19:40, Reply)

My wife and I went out for dinner one year on Valentines, saw a bloke at another table go down on one knee, the woman said no.
He ran out of the restaurant in tears. She then picked up the bottle of wine on their table & fucked off without paying.

Sort of funny & sad to see really.
( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Thu 6 Feb 2014, 19:48, Reply)

I am reasonably sure that I would just find that funny.

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Thu 6 Feb 2014, 19:49, Reply)

I felt sorry for the bloke.
But serves him right for proposing in public.

I carved my proposal in the snow in the back garden. That way if she said no I could hose the evidence away.
( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Thu 6 Feb 2014, 19:51, Reply)

Steve Harmison was in the bar when I proposed to the missus.
He's very tall.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Thu 6 Feb 2014, 19:52, Reply)

Bloke that used to work for me proposed to his girlfriend in a branch of KFC. In Slough.
She said yes.
( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Thu 6 Feb 2014, 19:55, Reply)

Classy.
We were on a night out for a mate's birthday and it was completely spontaneous.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Thu 6 Feb 2014, 19:56, Reply)

Shame he wasn't joking.
That would have been a right ZINGER!
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Thu 6 Feb 2014, 19:57, Reply)

Haha!

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Thu 6 Feb 2014, 19:59, Reply)

Haha! You old smoothie.
If you're gonna go public you'd best be fucking sure she's gonna say yes.
( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Thu 6 Feb 2014, 19:52, Reply)

I got a lot of kudos for the way in which I asked her.
Rather more than I got for being a husband.
( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Thu 6 Feb 2014, 19:54, Reply)

If I didn't know you were a right horrible cunt I'd think you had a bit of a soft side.

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Thu 6 Feb 2014, 19:55, Reply)

I am a truly bitter and nasty cunt.
Trufax.
( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Thu 6 Feb 2014, 19:56, Reply)

I both agree and sympathise

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Thu 6 Feb 2014, 19:58, Reply)

How would you have done it this winter?

( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Thu 6 Feb 2014, 19:59, Reply)

With hindsight, if it wasn't for my daughter, I wouldn't have at all.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Thu 6 Feb 2014, 20:05, Reply)

You can't do that - you can't get in your head that micro is a result of a mistake.
You have to bring her up in an environment of stability.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Thu 6 Feb 2014, 20:11, Reply)

Micro is certainly not a mistake and the best thing to ever happen to me. Things are stable for her; her emotional development is critical.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Thu 6 Feb 2014, 20:13, Reply)

Perhaps the relationship was a mistake
I'm not about to question for a moment your love for her - Sorry if you read it that way
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Thu 6 Feb 2014, 20:19, Reply)

Ex and me have a code - 1-4 -2
We'll always just nod that toward anyone going through the motions of a "relationship."
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Thu 6 Feb 2014, 19:53, Reply)