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Valentine’s Day does not define romance

If he is kind, hardworking, supportive and always there for you, you should appreciate the little things he does for you

Valentine’s Day beckons; the worst holiday of the year! The unattached folks aren’t the only ones dreading this happy unimaginative, consumerist-oriented and entirely arbitrary, manipulative and shallow interpretation of romance day.

Valentine’s Day sucks for quite a number of women who have ‘baes’ too, reason being that the men in their lives don’t have a romantic bone in their bodies.

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