Love is a noble act of self-giving, offering trust, faith and loyalty. The more you love, the more you lose a part of yourself, yet you don't become less of who you are; you end up being complete with your loved ones.

I know mushy right :).... in my old age I am getting that way. I use to never be the mushy one, Amy was the one that always had the boyfriends, the flowers, the gifts given to her and I never did. Actually I never had much of boyfriends, where as Amy couldn't do without, I could. And I married a man that wasn't romantic - and he knows it. It is one of our conversations all of the time. And his one Aunt is "shocked" by that, but not all men or women are built for that stuff, that mushy, hold hands, loving stuff all of the time.

He laughs at me while I cry at the movie the "The Notebook" even though I have seen it 100's of times, when I watch the movie Up - he is like it is a cartoon, and when I even watch the show "The Bachelor" which I normally don't watch but they are doing good with the clips this year of showing so much drama - he just rolls his eyes and laughs and always says no man in real life is that mushy. Hmmm.........

Anyway, this isn't to dog on Steve at all - it is just to say that men and women are different in their ideas of romance. Allowing him to sit in front of the TV all day on a Sunday to watch football while I take care of the kids - to him that is romance :) -, or keeping the kids "quiet" when the Superbowl is going to be on, well heck, I am the best wife there is then LOL....

I remember growing up never seeing mom and dad hold hands until we were older and then it was like they fell in love all over again - holding hands, going out, having fun and laughing - I am sure it is because they were too busy with us kids to take the time for themselves and then they could take that time for themselves: to fall in love all over again, rekindle what was once there.

Not sure why I am even talking about this - guess because it is all over the radio/TV with Valentine's Day - love, love, love - It is just very interesting to me the different perspectives of love, true love, soul mates, friendships, families, everyone has their own thoughts on love -

And I should say each generation has their different ways of love and showing love - it is just all interesting......

Be careful in the white death this weekend - if it happens :)