Rant #2,083: All You Need Is Love and Things Can Only Get Better

Happy Valentine's Day.

That being said, I am not much into the occasion this year.

There is simply too much going on in the background of my life right now to feel "the love," so to speak.

Oh, yes, I love my wife dearly. She is, quite honestly, the greatest woman in the world, and I love her with all my heart.

But with so much uncertainty revolving around me right now--and you don't know the half of it, because I haven't told you quite a bit, and I certainly won't pour my heart out, even on Valentine's Day--it is kind of difficult to get into the Valentine's Day spirit.

Oh yes, we have bought each other cards, and we will give them out tonight, after my wife gets home from work--she works the later shift today, of course--and after I try to take care of a major loose end in our lives that has to be dealt with, but I don't know, it just doesn't feel like Valentine's Day this year.

We did go out to dinner for the holiday this past Saturday evening, with a very nice meal at a local hibachi place. It was expensive, but it was good and kind of worth it.

But with the realization that this might be the last time we can do this for a long time, it kind of lessened the impact of whatever good times we had there.

I just hope that your Valentine's Day celebrations will be good ones, because cupid's arrow will be taking a zigzag pace in my house--oh, it will get to its destination, but it will take a while to get there.

I love my wife dearly. She is truly the shining light of my life.

The problem is that I hate to see her have to go through the nonsense that my situation has caused her. It is stressful for me, stressful for her, and yes, it is stressful to my son, who is trying to understand why his father is in the situation that he is in.

Heck, I can't even figure out why I am in the situation that I am in, so how can he?

So my family will exchange cards tonight, give big kisses to each other, and that will be it.

As it is, we will be pooped from work, from what we had to do to get from point A to point B today, as is the case every workday, so I am just happy that we were able to get into the spirit of the occasion, at least for a few hours, during this past weekend.

So, I wish my wife a nice Valentine's Day. She has to work, has to work the late shift, but I love her so. Things are so bad now that I often feel that they cannot get much worse, and then something else happens, and they do get worse ... but I have to believe that now, right at this moment, we have hit rock bottom, and things will get better from hereon in.

Through it all, our love for each other continues to burn brightly.

Again, I just wish neither of us needed to go through what we are going through right now.

And here is a shout out to our son, who continues to hold steady through all of it.

And here is another shout out to my parents, who demonstrate how love can last for decades through thick and through thin.

And yes, here is a shout out to my daughter. I still believe in her, will always love her, but I simply do not understand her ways at all.

Just to wrap it up, I have to go with both the Beatles' tune that is one part of the title of this Rant, and the other part, the title of the Howard Jones song, to define how I feel today.

You mix the two together like I did and you get "All You Need Is Love and Things Can Only Get Better," and that really defines how I feel on Valentine's Day this year.

And happy Valentine's Day to you and yours too.