You Don’t Bring Me Flowers Anymore…

It was 1978!

The song was ‘You Don’t Bring Me Flowers…’

Sung by Neil Diamond and Barbra Streisand, The song was a mega hit, and is still popular today.

I guess the fact that the song was released almost 30 years ago, at the time that the Baby Boomers were in their twenties and thirties has a lot to do with its continuing popularity.

I had reason to think of the song today.

What brought it to mind was the fact that I bought my wife flowers, for no other reason than that it was Friday, and to me, that’s always a good reason to do something special for someone you love.

Of course, the same can be said for Monday, Tuesday and so on. What struck me today though was the questions and comments that my wife had to field when they were delivered to her workplace.

It’s not your birthday, is it your anniversary? He hasn’t been playing up? And the list goes on!

Why did I buy her flowers? Because I love her… and I wanted to brighten her day. We’ve been married almost 21 years in just over a month, and I realized when I said ‘I do’ that it would be the biggest commitment that I’d ever make.

I’m still as impulsive as I ever was, and I happened to be coming out of a meeting just before midday, straight into a shower of rain.

We’ve been enduring quite a long drought here, and walking in the rain put quite a spring in my step, and as I had to walk past the florist anyway, I walked in…!

The reactions have caused me to ask more questions, such as why don’t people buy more flowers and other gifts?

Why not breathe fresh life into a relationship, and more importantly, why would you want to take your partner for granted just because you’ve been together for a long while!

As we get older, we can get set in our ways, and forget what it was that attracted us to each other when we were younger.

The pressures of day to day life, different interests and work can all take their toll! When this happens, there can come a day when one or both begin to wonder, who is this person that I am sharing my life with?

Relationships aren’t easy, and no one ever promised that they would be! I’ve remained married to my wife, because I made a commitment and said I would.

The greatest gift that my parents ever gave me, was being there, together.

They were committed to each other, and their family, so I guess that I must have caught it off them!

The other side of the coin of course is that my wife is committed to the relationship as well, and it makes life so much easier when responsibility for the relationship is shared.

Have a great weekend, and what ever state you find yourself in, give to someone! Some thing as simple as a smile can change a life for ever…!