Valentine’s Day is a day that can be a boon or a bane to lovers. The day offers opportunities to make up and restore the relationship with your spouse. Spouses are often more open to reconciliation on Valentine’s Day than many other days, unless it has some negative associations with it. Although most people have down the association of the heart with love, it also has other connotations. In terms of symbolism, the heart is also the center of the soul or an expression of what is most important to you. Giving your spouse a heart symbolizes that they are the centre of your life. They are the focus of your emotions.
The importance of the heart is ancient. In ancient Egypt, the heart was the only organ left within the person being mummified, since it was essential to the afterlife. The heart even to this day is essential for physical and emotional life. Ancients considered the heart, the centre of a person’s being. Whatever your heart focused on was seen as the main focus of one’s life.
Valentine’s Day provides a time to consider what is at the center of your being? Is it yourself, your spouse, your family or your lover? Valentine’s Day provides an opportunity to express your love or to quench your love, if you are inclinded to forget or ignore expressing your affections. This day provides the opportunity to draw close or to alienate.
Valentine’s Day and the days approaching it also provide opportunites to uncover affairs. Since there are many associations with Valentine’s Day, lovers often have expectations of the adulterer to show their love on that day. If you supsect your spouse of unfaithfulness, the lead up to Valentine’s Day is one of the windows of opportunity to discover where their heart truly lies.
