Valentine's Day Love Year Round
It is a surprise admission because men are not declaration people. They don’t sing the ‘I love you’ hymn six times a day. Women are the soloists in the love choir and we get upset when men don’t respond with ‘Me too.’ We are a couple therefore we demand that duet, otherwise they don’t get a warm welcome, let alone warm sleep.
“I thought you didn’t love me any more.”
When a man says that, it means he is missing something he used to receive from his wife or girlfriend and we’re not talking about buying him a winter jacket or a four-wheel ride, for Valentine’s Day. He is not missing clean shirts because they both use the laundry service at the mall.
Maybe the man was missing the way she used to look at him, all tender like spring rain. Maybe it’s the way her face lit up when she saw him unexpectedly in public, making him the envy of his friends. Maybe it’s because she no longer insists on her one condition.
‘Try and be home, before it rains.’ His friends call him the weather man but he didn’t care. He loved it because she has never been a defence attorney with where have you been, with whom and why?
“I thought you didn’t love me any more.”
Men and women know when they are loved. They don’t need gifts on Valentine’s Day. It’s well and good if they can afford them like Nigerian actress Regina Daniels’ husband and Kanye West.
By: Nonqaba waka Msimang.
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