What women want and what men give

What women want and what men give on Valentine’s Day

If you, as a man, find Valentine’s Day too commercial, then you are probably not the only one. And if you, as a man, still buy roses for your wife, then you are not alone. In the week of Valentine’s Day, around 100 million roses are auctioned in the Netherlands at the FloraHolland flower auction, which with an average bunch of 20 roses equates to 5 million bouquets of roses. Even though people say they don’t do anything about it, it turns out that the majority of men still buy roses for their loved ones (whether they admit it or not). But in 2014, are women still satisfied with a ‘less’ original bouquet of roses on this ‘too’ commercial day?

Valentine’s Day or Valentine’s Day?

You can shower your loved one with gifts on Valentine’s Day and be rushed out of a packed restaurant within 1.5 hours. However, isn’t it better to celebrate and honor love all year round? On January 14, you could also go out for dinner or come home with some flowers. Because love for your husband or wife should always be there, right? Valentine’s Day should simply be called Valentine’s Day, with couples going out for dinner and surprising each other all year round. Or does this no longer fit into our busy schedule of 2014 and do we really only have one day in the year where we have an automatic reminder in our calendar to buy a gift?

“Every year we see more and more bouquets with hearts and cuddly toys being sent throughout the year. However, roses remain the favorite of millions of women on Valentine’s Day. Another shift can also be seen; Single Dutch people are also increasingly sending flowers to surprise their best friend. A bouquet always goes well.” – Thomas, deBloemist.nl

What men give

What men give can actually be summarized very briefly. Many men do not go further than flowers, perfume, a piece of jewelry, lingerie, a dinner or, if the crisis has not hit too hard, a weekend away. They then stand in line for a long time at the florist, just quickly after work before driving home. Yet there are much worse gifts than the old-fashioned flower. An iron, or worse; a diet book or anti-wrinkle cream. Then it is indeed better to play it ‘safe’.

Attention and household help requested

Women want to be ‘really’ thought of, without an automatic calendar reminder and without a commercially mandatory day. Attention is the magic word for the ‘oh so busy’ 2014. Loving attention, without studio sports on the TV, work laptop on your lap or a mother-in-law on the couch. It is not about the gift, but about romantic attention, an experience, a lasting memory. And not just on Valentine’s Day.

If you ask women what they want from men, frustration from domestic help is often on the tip of their tongue. No dirty socks in the house, a grease-free gas stove, no having to answer the same question three times, not being the only one to take the vacuum cleaner out of the cupboard and… despite the woman saying she doesn’t have to do anything for Valentine’s Day, still a flowers. Women are complicated, or do they actually ask for very simple things?

Women’s Day

You hardly hear men gossiping about gifts on the day after Valentine’s Day, while women will immediately share with their girlfriends what they received from their loved one. If a woman is the only one in her group of friends who has had a bouquet of 30 roses, she will proudly tell you how sweet her Valentine is. If she is the only one who has had nothing, then you have a disappointed woman sitting on the couch. So buy a bouquet of roses like 5 million others, even if she doesn’t need anything. A bouquet of roses is ‘always good’ for women. Especially if you send them to work, where colleagues immediately see that she is the one who got something for Valentine’s Day. Responding to feelings, emotions and, above all, her jealousy.

It may all be a bit of a generalization, but a little more attention, household help and that old-fashioned flower that she can show off at work or with friends makes many women happy. So it doesn’t have to be difficult.

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