10 Reasons why Valentine's Day sucks

Jan 21, 2010 6:55 PM by Aly Walansky

Posted in Love & Sex / Single Girls' Guide

We Hate Cupid

Joy and rapture: It's Valentine's Day. Like a milestone birthday and a dentist appointment all wrapped up into one, Valentine's Day is pretty much the most evil holiday ever to go commercial. We're not surprised it's connected to a massacre. Read on for the top 10 reasons we despise everything and anything attached to Cupid!

Angry couple on Valentine's day

Men are children

They are unable to handle the "pressure" of Valentine's Day, and thus resent you for expecting a present, a date, a phone call or actually anything at all.

Peer pressure

There's no pleasing your friends. If your boyfriend gives you a lame gift (i.e. drugstore roses or heart-shaped chocolates), they'll tease you. If he gives you nothing, they'll tell you you are in a go-nowhere relationship. And if you get a great gift, clearly he has something to hide!

Home alone

Raise your hand if you've pretended to have a date just to avoid the fate of going out with a bunch of single women and getting trashed in celebration of your "independence".

Get fat

Let's face it: Single or no, this is a really unhealthy holiday. A month after you've pledged to lose the Christmas weight, you are faced with excessive chocolate consumption.

The good friend

As if you don't feel bad enough about having had no one to kiss on New Year's Eve, now you will have a new opportunity to listen to best friends and loved ones coo about getting engaged while you pretend to be interested -- really, you just want a bottle of tequila.

Pity gift

The only thing worse than no date and no presents is when your mom sends you a bouquet of flowers. Do you lie about who it's from or tell the truth? Try to figure out which is the less sad option.

Drunk dials

You may want to hide your phone. Suddenly, checking in with old boyfriends who are now married but couldn't commit to you may sound like a wise idea.

It's a lie

Feb. 14 is actually the feast day of Saint Valentine, who is the real reason for the observation. It's also the anniversary of a bloody massacre! Neither of these occasions necessitate hearts and flowers.

Crappy music

We love a good ballad just as much as everyone else, but the week before Valentine's Day you are pretty much forced to steer clear of the radio. All you will hear are sappy love songs, which are not good for your psyche when you are already engaging in the mental countdown to hell. The result? Even your commute routine is ruined by this ridiculous holiday.

Stupid cupid

Take a moment to consider folklore. Cupid was essentially a streaker man-child who used poisoned arrows to create "Eros". Nowadays, we would call him a frat boy and arrest him for slipping girls roofies. Gross.

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Comments on "10 Reasons why Valentine's Day sucks"

Feb 14th, a day to spend the evening on the couch with a bottle of Jack and a German Shepherd dog watching documentaries on TV about the St. Valentines day massacre.

Yeah Valentines day sucks. I swear, I look at everyone and they all have somebody. I think the only way a woman would ever notice me was if I was rich like crazy! but who wants a woman who only wants you for their money. This holiday can just go away. Im going to spend it by taking a loooong walk as I am one of the unlucky ones out there I guess.

Hi, Only found this site today and to Marcy who posted a year ago, I hope that things are somewhat better for you. To lose your soulmate and then your son. You poor darling. 2 devastating blows. I lost the love of my life 5 years ago too, but unlike you, it was my bloody stupidity, he is still in the land of the living with another lady love and I feel I will never be over it. Never loved another man before or since. How I miss his arms around me and the simple things, like chatting in bed. A pox on this crappy holiday.

Yup, Valentines sucks, he doesn't give me, txt me, call me, or anthing for the entire day, but yeah as soon as he got home, he accused me of receiving gifts from someone else, but of course he must be accussing me for what he would've loved to give me and most likely gave to someone else, really my feet are well placed on earth.

I was just reading a couple of articles about the wrong cards & gifts to give. WTF??? For guys, this is just another way for us to fail at pleasing you! For girls, this is just another reason for you to be frustrated with us! As for me, I refuse to get involved in the whole thing. Any woman that is with me, knows that valentine's day ain't my thang!

Aside from 10 the list is funny

I used to like valentines day. Until i dated my Ex. Who insisted in never celebrating it. I lasted w/that jerk for 5 yrs. Now i have a new boyfriend. We've been together for 1yr. I have to say i am not happy in this relationship. We fought right before xmas and right before new years, and now we fought right before valentines. I dont expect anything on this day this year. He asked me if we could celebrate tomorrow, instead of today. I told him, i didnt even think he was planning on celebrating it. How can i celebrate the day of LOVE when i am not feeling it... :(

not to pour salt in the wounds of you ladies, but singles guys know that this is one of your most vulnerable days. so my friends and i would go out to bars, restaurants, clubs, etc. like scavenger birds looking for the easy prey. it's guaranteed that each of us will indeed get some lovin on "V-Day", which as you might imagine, had an entirely different meaning for us!

The long and short of it is that I've got kids, no friends, not family near by and no partner. I get 1 day every 2 weeks to myself - not enought time to even consider looking for someone to love, let alone, if I found someone - my kids would be back from their Dad's and I would not have any free time for the next 2 weeks. Valentines Day is the one day of the year that I feel rejected just by the fact that my life doesn't support having time to even attempt to meet someone - it can go to hell.

i agree completely this holiday from hell only brings every one down in one way or another especially if you have family who've died on this beloved holiday (rolls eyes) i hate this day and normally cut myself out of the gossip for one day. screw valentines day and its its cliche meanings.

YoU are completely right on every aspect of this. I would like to add a thought. that if you are dating someone it just puts pressure on the relationship which feels crappy on both ends, and if your not dating anyone then you feel like crap do you want to consume an entire gallon of ice cream which will be salty from your tears. So just one more reason dumbest holiday ever celebrated by the masses. We are very stupid love crazy people.

LOL.Immature, selfish, ually liberated members of the women's liberation movement and their "holiday".ME ME ME and MY FEELINGS.LMAO!!!!!!!!

All we need is a little redemption from love. http://the-chronicon.blogspot/2011/02/love-is-all-you-need.html

Luke, you shouldn't be worrying about that crap. Just hit it and split it. Don't let a women tie you down before you sampled all of life.

I seem to be the only high school guy that doesn't have any balls. That sucks. I don't have a long story, but I have a pretty short one. I have a crush on a girl, and I'm too nervous to ask her out. Having Valentine's Day around kind of makes it worse, but enough about me and my teenaged angst that no one else cares about, considering the fact that just about every other guy's gone through it... I'll get over it.

Well its Valentine' s day and I'm on my couch crying my eyes out. See I'm the kind of girl who is loved beyond words. I have the love of my life and two beautiful girls a great job ... everything I could want and I still manage to screw my day up. Here's the short version... I fractured my tailbone Saturday... it hurts pretty bad but this morning I managed to get up an hour early and get my girls ready for school and me ready for work (while in pain) and made my hubby a basket full of goodies and bought 5 huge balloons and took them across town to his work. I dropped the kids off and went to work. All morning everyone was getting flowers delivered except for me. When I called my husband he was short with me and didn't even seem happy about my surprise to him even though he knew it took me a lot of effort. By the afternoon I was over this stupid day. I came home crying the whole way. I got home and my husband was here with a trail of roses to our bedroom and a gift. I was so upset still that I got back in my car and left. I texted him that ir was too late. He called me and we got in a huge fight and now I have ruined the day. How can I fix this? :(

it's also my birthdaY.DOUBLE SUCK

"Random thoughts for Valentine's day, 2004. Today is a holiday invented by greeting card companies to make people feel like crap." - open lines of "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" (one of my favorite films of all time)

Wow..no other comments. I'm surprised. Well, except for you I guess I'm the only other woman out there who doesn't have anybody this year. Fun, isn't it ? lol. Seriously...since there's no one else here I can have my own pity party without getting flamed for it (people just love to beat others when they are down. The American Way, right?) It's a short story really. Five years ago I lost the love of my life to a heart attack. And it happened right in front of me. He treated me like an Empress and now he is gone and I've not had a date since. It's good to know the only man that found me beautiful on this planet is gone forever. Happy times. Then last year I lose my son to Luekemia. Life is REALLY great. All I know is that I don't know which is worse, going through the first Giftmess season without my son or facing another valentines day alone without my beloved Hubby. Right now I feel like sucking on a tailpipe. Life is so not fair sometimes. Why does it seem like there are some people whom nothing bad EVER happens to ? Seriously, I know women who have ALWAYS had a boyfriend on V-Day, have never had anybody they love die on them, and whom it seems like it's always only good things that happen to them. I mean, can't God parcel things out a little to where everyone gets an even mix of good & bad things ? Apparently not. That would be too fair I guess. Well, this year on V-Day I happen to be in Culinary school. And of COURSE the 14th is scheduled on a MONDAY. Why OH WHY couldn't it have happened on a weekend because I can totally foresee how the day will go. It starts like this: Arrive at school...Oh wait..I'm getting ahead of myself here *bitter laugh*... Get into the truck of my carpool friend and endure an hour of his baby-love talk on his cell to his GF while trying valiantly not to throw up. THEN I arrive at school and have to listen to all the cooing lovebirds (some actually IN school having MET there) and the coupled people gush about how in love they are and how much fun they will have that night. This while undoubtedly go on ALL day while I try my best not to cry. My only option for escape is to STAY HOME, alas I will be marked down for it. But to quote Rhett "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn". I'm sure no one will ever read this which is a relief in a way, but I feel a TINY bit better having vented. So thanks :-S