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RUSH: A story from CNN out of London: “Valentine\u2019s Day: Lonely Time for Singles — If you don\u2019t receive a dozen red roses this Valentine\u2019s Day, don\u2019t fret, you\u2019re not alone. The love season is a lonesome time for many — flowers, chocolates and red hearts flaunted around can make it hard to ignore your single status.” Ha! Ha! <\/emphasize>“As lovebirds enjoy a romantic meal together, you could be spending the night in front of the TV, with a meal for one.” Yeah. “Lora De Felice, 32, is doing just that. ‘I\u2019m renting an action video, having Lebanese takeaway and switching my phone off. As a single woman, Valentine\u2019s Day reminds me of what I haven\u2019t got, a partner and a loving relationship.'”<\/line>Well, Lora, you need to call this program and call this program fast, because you are falling pray to a giant marketing trick. Do you know how many of these couples are out there having dinner tonight are doing it because they think they have to? How many boxes of chocolate, how many cards, how many dozens of roses are being sent not because anybody wants to, but because if they don\u2019t they\u2019ll catch hell <\/emphasize>because it\u2019s Valentine\u2019s Day and you\u2019re “supposed to do it”? So this is a day of obligation. This is not a day of love, and you\u2019re falling prey to it. If you\u2019re going to run out and feel lonely on Valentine\u2019s Days but you\u2019re not lonely the day before or the day after, you\u2019re falling for the trick. You\u2019re falling into the trap. <\/line> This is another thing I refuse to play by. They want to schedule… We get too many obligatory holidays like this. This is not a holiday, but nobody will convince me that Hallmark isn\u2019t behind this in a conspiracy going back to the 1400s, the descendants of the Hall family in Kansas City, they probably started all this. Then the Russell Stover people. They\u2019re all from Kansas City, by the way. Then the Russell Stover people got involved, and then it all broke loose, then they found a saint to associate with it, and why am I not more romantic. (interruption) Who says I\u2019m not romantic? What is romantic about acting <\/emphasize>romantic on Valentine\u2019s Day when you are supposed to? What is it? I\u2019m plenty romantic when the mood strikes me, but I\u2019m not going to sit here and have my mood dictated by what I\u2019m obligated to do because it\u2019s Valentine\u2019s Day. <\/line> Look at this. We got however many single people in this country are going to be in the fits of depression tonight simply because (interruption). Well Snerdley won\u2019t and I won\u2019t be. I\u2019ve got some people coming over for dinner tonight, a couple family members are in town, but there\u2019s not going to be any reference to Valentine\u2019s Day, I\u2019m telling you! I told them to get that out of the way before they show up. These are just little manipulative tricks that our society plays, and Lora De Felice? Somebody call her. She\u2019s 32. Tell her it\u2019s not worth it. It\u2019s not worth getting depressed. Lebanese takeout is fine; action movie is fine, but if that\u2019s what you want to do, then don\u2019t let anybody tell you that what you\u2019re doing is not good simply because you\u2019re alone. <\/line><\/p>\n

This is just all this manipulation going on. Really. Really, I\u2019ve never really understood Valentine\u2019s Day. I have never understood it. (interruption) Aaaaaah, as a teenager it\u2019s different. You don\u2019t know anything, and you think this kind of stuff actually works. This doesn\u2019t work. The women expect <\/emphasize>this stuff. You don\u2019t gain anything. All you do is fulfill an obligation. <\/line>“He sent me roses on Valentine\u2019s Day.”<\/line>“Yeah? Yeah, and would he have sent them on February 14th if there weren\u2019t a holiday?”<\/line>“But he did.”<\/line>“Yeah? Okay, fine, but obviously it doesn\u2019t score you any points.”<\/line> Who ever remembers a Valentine\u2019s present unless it\u2019s an engagement? (sigh) Eh, sometimes you never forget those.<\/line>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/line> RUSH: Dena in Madison, Alabama<\/a>, I\u2019m glad you called. you\u2019re next on the Rush Limbaugh program. Hi.<\/line>CALLER: Hi, Rush. How are you?<\/line>RUSH: Never better. Thank you.<\/line>CALLER: I wanted to call you so many times on all your political views but now I\u2019ve actually called and gotten through on such a trivial issue, but I had to call and say how much I agree with you about the whole Valentine\u2019s issue.<\/line>RUSH: Thank you. Thank you.<\/line>CALLER: It is over the top. I am a married woman with — of course woman with — 15 years this April, and we dated for seven years before that, and I\u2019ve never liked Valentine\u2019s Day, and I think that the media and the marketing has gone way over the top with it, and this poor woman that this article is written about, I\u2019m hoping that there are other mothers like myself, mothers of young girls that help teach their girls not <\/emphasize>to grow up and feel like this poor woman feels, because that is not what life is all about.<\/line>RUSH: The mass marketing, I don\u2019t think there\u2019s that. Obviously you\u2019ve got the Valentine ads and you\u2019ve got the Valentine\u2019s this and so forth. I mean, if people want to fall into it and participate in it, it\u2019s fine. The thing that touched me about the story is that here is a woman who is actually giving up the power of her feelings to a concept, <\/emphasize>and she\u2019s allowing herself to feel alone on this one night because she\u2019s not got anything going on, on Valentine\u2019s Day, and I think that it\u2019s a great illustration of how people get caught up in doing what they think they should be doing, being who they think they should be based on what others\u2019 expectations of them are, or they in this case think they are missing out on something, because I will guarantee you this woman thinks every year…<\/line>It\u2019s like New Year\u2019s Eve. Everybody thinks that New Year\u2019s Eve is the best party in the world and everybody is at the best party except them, especially if they\u2019re alone or staying home, and they get all depressed because they think all these other people are out there having a grand time when not nearly as many as they think are, same thing with Valentine\u2019s Day. The number of people eating dinner tonight in a restaurant because they actually want to be there as opposed to: “I\u2019d better do this. I better make this reservation. Gosh, I hope I can get a table!” I would wager that the vast majority of flowers going back and forth today and candy grams and so forth and dinner reservations is because of, “I think I\u2019d better do this,” sense of obligation. Meanwhile, this woman is sitting those people feeling all alone, and it\u2019s just a shame. She doesn\u2019t have to be.<\/line>CALLER: Yeah. I just hate it that thought process has to happen and I just can\u2019t help but think that there are many more out there like that, and I just don\u2019t want my daughter to feel like that when she\u2019s growing up, you know, that someone telling her how to feel, and it\u2019s just ridiculous. It really is. It\u2019s a family thing for us. We do it as a family.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Valentine\u2019s Day?<\/line>CALLER: I\u2019m sorry?<\/line>RUSH: You do Valentine\u2019s Day as a family?<\/line>CALLER: Well, no. We let our children enjoy it. They get little Valentine\u2019s cards and things like that, because it\u2019s not —<\/line>RUSH: A-ha! <\/line>CALLER: No! No! <\/line> RUSH: So you have fallen for it! (Laughing)<\/line>CALLER: Nooo.<\/line>RUSH: You just have made it something else! (laughing)<\/line>CALLER: Not in the sense that you\u2019re talking about. I don\u2019t make my husband feel like he has to go out and buy me something.<\/line>RUSH: (chuckling)<\/line>CALLER: I just think that\u2019s ridiculous.<\/line>RUSH: I\u2019ll tell you what. Dawn asked me when I first went on my little monologue about Valentine\u2019s Day, she — What was her question? “Why am I so unromantic?” Or am I (interruption). Well, Dawn, here\u2019s the way I honestly look at this: “In the right relationship, every day is Valentine\u2019s Day.”<\/emphasize> There, how\u2019s that? That will make \u2019em melt. Yeah. (Laughing.) How many times will that be said tonight? Thanks for the call out there, Dena. I appreciate it.<\/line>END TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n

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