Valentine’s Day is an opportunity to express love in all its forms. Expressing gratitude and love for the ones you care about the most. The most obvious type of love is romantic love. Which couples celebrate with presents. Flowers, and time spent together. Couples reignite their romance and enjoy each other’s company for the whole Valentine’s season.

Family love also comes into play. During the days after Valentine’s. people manage to express gratitude to parents, siblings, and children validating the good warm relationships that keep families together. Through small gifts, dining together or quality time. Family love is perceived as a source of shelter and protection at all times.

Friendship love also comes in. Valentine’s season brings in the aspect of celebrating friends with greeting cards, gifts or simply plain old messages. These acts of love show that love does not necessarily have to be romance but friends sometimes form the most unbreakable ties in one’s life.

There is also spiritual love, and it’s one of charity and kindness as well. Folks go out of their way to help other needy people on this holiday. Be it by volunteering a gift or even a simple phone call to someone who might otherwise spend the holiday alone. It’s giving without anything in return and showing mercy and compassion where perhaps there is greatest need.

Valentine’s season also reminds us of the fact that love is not for a day but for a force to act on in bountiful as well as minute actions throughout the season. For couples in the family with friends even while doing charitable acts it is love that holds it all together.