Move over love, it’s time for an innovative surprise

When it’s February, nothing is cooler than pretending you couldn’t care less about Valentine’s Day and would rather burn the cards, roses and anything red that reminds you of it. Well of course, you are in a happy relationship and you don’t need some day to tell when to celebrate love. So, while you wait for things to materialise and your partner hammers at the keyboard at work, the same day of love turns into a bad case of romantic indigestion. Something, which most real time couples face while in love in the times of commercialisation and over exposure.
Newly engaged Rahul Yadav feels it’s more about peer pressure, where one is supposed to do better that what her friend’s partner did. “It all about what you give her, where you take her, whether the long planned short trip takes place on Valentine’s Day or not,” he says.
Something, which currently single Abhinav Dasgupta agrees with. “I used to hate Valentine’s Day when I was in a serious relationship earlier. We always wanted it to be something special, but it never turned out to be. Anyway at work, your boss is not going to let you off early just because you want to take your partner out and at the same time, your partner too is entitled to ask ‘Could you not set one day, one measly day, aside just for me? Does your work mean more to you than I do?’ or things to that effect,” he jokes.
But it doesn’t have to be this bad when all you intend is to make your partner feel special. Ruchi Kapoor, who has been successfully married for ten years now, says it’s the small things that matter. “Understanding between partners is important and both need to be on the same page as to what they expect from the day. Besides, from a take-out meal, a freshly baked caked, saucy lingerie or a sweet movie, there could be million ways to express your love,” she says. Something we heard from specifically Anti V-Day, Sharik Verma. “I would rather surprise her with a breakfast in bed in mid-October as I think that day is way too artificial and things could get awkward easily,” he tells us.

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