This photograph shows a countertop with an assortment of candies, arranged artistically. There's an opened box of chocolates, and the box is in a heart shape. There is one solid chocolate bar that is sea salt flavored, and there is another chocolate bar under it. Most of the label is covered, except for a beautiful red flower against a white background.

How to Sweet Talk Ur BB

This photograph shows a countertop with an assortment of candies, arranged artistically. There's an opened box of chocolates, and the box is in a heart shape. There is one solid chocolate bar that is sea salt flavored, and there is another chocolate bar under it. Most of the label is covered, except for a beautiful red flower against a white background.

Be still, my candy conversation heart! It’s Valentine’s Day weekend, and I can’t get the wrapper off a chocolate bar fast enough. Candy’s awesome, candy’s true, but so are sus buckets of roses with a card that says, “for you.”

Back when Nate and I were first dating, Nate got me a rose for Valentine’s Day, and then the next day, he sent me buckets of roses—to my work—which raised a lot of eyebrows. When he showed up to see the look on my face, the administrative assistant asked him what I did to get so many roses—wink, wink, nudge, nudge. And Nate, an accountant by trade, didn’t miss a beat:

“They were just going to throw them out! So I took them off the grocer’s hands for free. He helped me stuff them into buckets.”

Hear me out. I thought that was the sexiest thing a man could ever say. I LOVED those roses. I even kept the buckets until they kind of disintegrated on their own and fell apart, which was weird.

In any case, I still get roses on Valentine’s Day, but also candy—and I give candy to Nate and Alex because it’s my love language. I’m a sucker for those heart-shaped boxes, so my sweethearts get one every year. And then, we always have chocolate bars. Recently, I decided the countertops needed a splash of red, so I filled a jar with cinnamon hearts, which are great for sprinkling on cookies and ice cream.

I know, I know. It’s a sentimental holiday, all syrupy and sappy, but: roses are red, Gushers will gush, life’s too short, GET A SUGAR RUSH!

Your Turn: What’s your “love language?” (What do you like to give as gifts? It doesn’t have to be for Valentine’s Day.)

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