This year I spent Valentine’s Day in Paris - the city of love - on my own. I’ve never been much of a fan of Valentine’s Day - it’s always felt a little off to me, all that being forced to buy gifts and cards declaring your love for another because Hallmark says so.
Big thankyou, you sparked a huge ah ha, from a slightly differently angle. Very liberating. I wondered what my 4yr old inner child made of my own Dad dying, as I read your piece. It must really have pissed me off too, but back then I wouldn't have had the words to say so. Perhaps that's where my own writing suddenly splutters to an unexplained full stop: my pen 🖊 probably touches a vulnerability in that tot, that wants to come up out of hiding, but isn't sure how to put it across.
Not many people can say they had "5 Guys" for Valentines 🤣😝
Ok I have a "guilty pleasure" to confess 😅 I get really excited reading the food you've eaten on your travels... I blame it on the fact I don't smoke or drink (well maybe once or twice a year with a friend out of peer pressure) and I'm not crazy sociable so I have a very romantic relationship with food, so on hearing about your Velvety Hot Chocolate and Salty 🥐 i feel rather envious yet eager to have one too 😍
I definitely can't commit to a man, that's not out of promiscuity it's because I've never ever had a man in my life... All girls school, all female family (Dad was literally a man up the road who paid for myself and my sister once a week) my longest relationship was 6 months and my son was from a one night stand (I know, I'm a wrecked woman 🫣) who I couldn't wait to leave because I wanted to go downstairs and eat the left overs from my dinner earlier 🤣 (see, food again!) So I get that "inner child" theory, because I never had a man around I don't really want or need one 🍟
...That or you can't miss what you never had, maybe that will change one day!
Big thankyou, you sparked a huge ah ha, from a slightly differently angle. Very liberating. I wondered what my 4yr old inner child made of my own Dad dying, as I read your piece. It must really have pissed me off too, but back then I wouldn't have had the words to say so. Perhaps that's where my own writing suddenly splutters to an unexplained full stop: my pen 🖊 probably touches a vulnerability in that tot, that wants to come up out of hiding, but isn't sure how to put it across.
Not many people can say they had "5 Guys" for Valentines 🤣😝
Ok I have a "guilty pleasure" to confess 😅 I get really excited reading the food you've eaten on your travels... I blame it on the fact I don't smoke or drink (well maybe once or twice a year with a friend out of peer pressure) and I'm not crazy sociable so I have a very romantic relationship with food, so on hearing about your Velvety Hot Chocolate and Salty 🥐 i feel rather envious yet eager to have one too 😍
I definitely can't commit to a man, that's not out of promiscuity it's because I've never ever had a man in my life... All girls school, all female family (Dad was literally a man up the road who paid for myself and my sister once a week) my longest relationship was 6 months and my son was from a one night stand (I know, I'm a wrecked woman 🫣) who I couldn't wait to leave because I wanted to go downstairs and eat the left overs from my dinner earlier 🤣 (see, food again!) So I get that "inner child" theory, because I never had a man around I don't really want or need one 🍟
...That or you can't miss what you never had, maybe that will change one day!
You absolutely will find love again, in the most unlikely of places and when you least expect it xx