Valentine's Day has always been a downer. Our ideas and expectations of romantic love will never live up to reality and this hyped up holiday is not doing anyone any favors, but rather creating more reasons to feel bad about ourselves and our love lives.

• Have you ever had a good Valentine's?
• What were your ideas of romantic love before having experienced love?
• My mother used to say "del amor no se vive," (one cannot live off of love). Did your mom have any of these totally unromantic sayings?

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