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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 2033509" data-attributes="member: 2205">I used to be a hatah.  I felt an enormous amount of pressure to pull off some big production for my wife, and she didn't seem to really ever like what I was doing.Turns out, I was doing exactly what Teflon Billy was talking about.  I was a hatah because I was projecting my own annoyance at feeling like I "had" to do something nice for my wife.  Lately, I've calmed down and realized that my wife actually does not want a big production at all; she just wants to know that I was thinking about her.  And by thinking about her, she doesn't mean "pick up some flowers on the way home from work," because that isn't thinking of her until the last minute.So I've stumbled on the secret of successful Valentine's Days in the Dyal household, and while I was at it, gained a new appreciation for the holiday.  Today, for instance, I got up a few minutes early and made breakfast, which I brought up to my wife in bed.  Tonight, we're going out to eat, putting the kids to bed, and then I'm gonna break out the new chick flix DVDs I bought for her and let her choose one to watch, and we'll lay in bed and watch it.Simple.  Easy.  Thoughtful.  Works like a charm.For me, I'm much easier to please.  With four kids in the house, all it takes to make my day is to get lucky two or three times a week, and Valentine's Day is a good excuse for that.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />  Of course, I'll also take cash or gift cards.  And my wife made brownies topped with chocoloate chip cookie dough and brought them up to me at work.  I sometimes think she's just trying to make sure that I'm fatter than she is, though.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Err... not that she's at all fat.  Not that I'm all that fat either, although I could stand to lose about 20 lbs. or so.</blockquote>

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