So, you are in CancerLand on Valentine’s Day?
Yep, that sucks. It’s awful. I know; I’ve been there.
But you do not have to surrender to 5FU and all her crazy chemo cousins.
You can have Valentine’s Day and romance and cancer. Here’s how:
Remember how Valentine’s Day worked before cancer.
Shed one tear remembering that, and then laugh. Find something to laugh about. Call up your true love and reminisce together.
Make a Valentine. If you can get out, buy a pretty one. If you can’t get out (friggin’ 5FU) then make one: paper doilies, red Sharpie, tear a story form the newspaper, write on a playing card (yes you can ruin a deck of cards by taking out the King or Queen of hearts).
Drop your expectations. Like a hot potato—drop them. This is Valentine’s Day in a new country: CancerLand.
Think about love, and email love and text that love. There is so much love in CancerLand and with your partner, state it clearly. You have seen and felt love so grand and so different than people who have never visited CancerLand. Claim and celebrate that love. Explicitly.
People around you may be afraid to ask, “What are you guys doing for Valentine’s Day?” like they are asking other couples. Shame on them—announce what you are doing. Stare down their fear.
Things to keep: affection, conversation, chocolate, cards, flowers, bad poetry, good poetry, and romantic comedies (TV listing are crammed with romantic movies tonight.)
Things to lose: expectations and projections
Things to negotiate: a good meal, gifts and sex. (be creative and open-minded with that last word.)
Refuse to surrender: your relationship, your coupledom, your happiness.
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