I find it extremely difficult to get through Valentine’s Day for the following reasons:
• I have no significant other in my life. I don’t understand why women insist on over-analyzing me, when all I’ve ever asked for is to accept me as I am, flaws and all. I also don’t get why women back out all of a sudden when they can’t accept the fact that I’m going to be different from them…because I’m a man, and men think differently than women do.
• I have no family of my own. My son, who turns 18 in five days, basically stopped talking to me on Father’s Day of 2003. With every attempt at communication with them since then, I receive nothing back from them except HATE. Because of that, I feel like I was just a sperm donor to my son’s mother.
Believe me, I’m not angry, but I have to wonder if there really is someone out there for me. Someone who will spend the rest of their days with me, someone who will go to church with me. Someone who will gripe at me if I don’t take the trash out, someone who will hold me at night and love me as a woman should love a man. God sees that I am in pain from this lack of companionship in my life, and I’ve asked Him in prayer to send me the right someone. Whether or not He answers that prayer is up to Him.

As for the rest of you: if you have a spouse or significant other in your life, treasure them now, treasure them always. Happy Valentine’s Day to you.