Scrap VDAY Culture & Make It A Lifestyle
The value of consistently showing love & appreciation in all of your relationships
It’s the day of love, but shouldn’t every day be embalmed with love and appreciation?
Too often, we only celebrate, appreciate, and go all out for our love interests on specific days such as a birthday, anniversary, or the famous valentine’s day.
How can you expect to build anything of substance that is also enjoyable, fulfilling, and long-term if you manage your relationships like this?
V-day reminds me of Christmas; many people suddenly become more giving and kind around Christmas, which is a load of shit.
Why not celebrate your love interest(s) today and consistently?
Imagine how different your relationships with your loved ones might look if you consistently show appreciation for them…
Your relationships would look, feel, and be much healthier and zestier.
You might even be able to transform a dead-end relationship into something beautiful and alive again.
How do I show my appreciation?
It doesn’t need to be over the top.
Your gestures can be simple, beautiful, meaningful, intentional, and thoughtful, which can help add gasoline to keep the lovely fire alive.
Not only can you apply this strategy to your romantic relationships, but you can apply it to your professional, familial, and platonic (friends) relationships.
Cause everyone needs appreciation and love, not just our love interests.
Love Languages
Whatever your partner’s, friends, and other relationship-types love languages are, consistently speak it, and if you struggle to, learn how to speak it consistently.
If you care about someone enough (and it’s a healthy relationship), you will find a way to keep them in your life—no matter the cost.
Start here first, though
The better you love and show appreciation to yourself, the more you will be able to do so in all your other relationships.
If you’re not taking care of yourself, you can’t effectively take care of, acknowledge, appreciate, and affirm the special people in your life.
If you don’t see the value in yourself, you won’t be able to see the value in others or might even be threatened by others who do see their value.
An old friend constantly cut down their partner and friends because they were extremely insecure; this behavior frequently left them alone.
Love yourself; it’s one of the most attractive traits that people frequently don’t mention.
Sometimes loving yourself means walking away from relationships (i.e., romantic, professional, familial, friends, and acquaintances) to experience better outcomes.
When you love and respect yourself, you attract people who do the same.
Furthermore, you feel uncomfortable around those who don’t love themselves, which ultimately shields you from developing potentially hazardous relationships, saving you many future troubles later.
One of the biggest causes of strife in humankind is relationships. The better your relationships, the better your life experience, and vice versa.
Ohmygosh, this article really spoke to my heart. Destiny, your articles and books are transforming so many lives. Thanks so much for sharing your work with me.