I bought her Unexpected flowers, we had a long talk without the distraction of the offspring, and I gave her permission to take a boy she's interested in shoe and lingerie shopping (for him).
In return, there will be a rather interesting photo op in our mutual future. I doubt one of her school-girl outfits will survive it, but it will be more fun if it gets ripped to shreds...
As naughty as it sounds, it was kind of a bummer for V-day. She talked about someone else, I talked about someone else from long ago that I still miss, and while we both had some mutual, emotional closeness, I wouldn't call it "romantic". The real gift was "You get one fantasy..." and that's where the two ideas came from.
-SB
