Valentine's Day 2011

Valentine's Day is an infidel holiday and forbidden in most Islamic countries [See THIS at A New Dark Age Is Dawning]. Hell, Saudi doesn't even allow the sale of red roses at this time of year. After all, Valentine's Day does celebrate that the woman is allowed pleasure during sex, pleasure disdained in fundamentalist Islam because a woman's pleasure is condemned as evil and leads men astray. Or something like that.

New love is beautiful, seasoned love even more so — as Mr. AOW and I have discovered after more than thirty-eight years of marriage, even as we endure the many limitations forced upon us by Mr. AOW's brain hemorrhage of September 15, 2009.

According to this source, our discovery about seasoned love is not merely wishful thinking on our part:

Valentine's Day may be for young couples, but love ripens with age, says a new Canadian study.

The study by researchers at the University of Montreal shows that older couples are more in love than their younger counterparts....

The rest at Always On Watch.