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Three Surprising Lessons From Valentine’s Day Social Media Posts
I’ve always loved sending holiday well wishes. It’s somewhat of a tradition for me, I guess I revere sending words of goodwill. In 2013, I started a tradition where I would post on social media wishing all the lovely ladies a Happy Valentines Day and then go into more detail about who I was and was not talking about when I said “lovely lady.”
Between 2013 and 2017, I intended the posts to be a lovely holiday wish with some added humor to it, not anything mean-spirited aimed at anyone in particular.
Then in January of 2018, something happened that changed my traditional Valentine’s Day post.
A woman I had previously dated (let’s call her M) hit me up to come to my house and I told M to come through. After we had a couple of rounds of intimacy, she (somewhat randomly) revealed that she had a boyfriend. I was appalled. She was apathetic. That made me even more appalled.
I won’t sit here and act like I’m some perfect person who hasn’t been guilty of wrongdoing. But at that time, as I still do, I very much believed in the sanctity of a committed relationship.