Valentine’s Day is just another name for a Hallmark holiday.

Every year on Feb. 14 people turn into hopeless romantics and show their affection through heart-shaped candy and expensive roses.

Showing love for friends and family should not be designated to a certain day.

Many people use Valentine’s Day as an excuse to not show their appreciation year round. Hallmark stores should not get to decide when people show affection.

Anniversaries are for celebrating relationships while birthdays and holidays are for appreciating friends and family. Valentine’s Day does not have anything that is not already celebrated by other days of the year.

Being single on Valentine’s Day is like having the chicken pox. People run in terror, believing they might catch the single bug.

Any other day of the year it is acceptable to be single, yet on this day people see a bleak future if they do not have someone special to spend the day with.

Many women this Valentine’s Day will expect a proposal, yet many more will be dumped instead.

Some women will realize they do not want to spend anymore time with their partner after not getting what they want for Valentine’s Day.

This day of love makes people go relationship crazy.

Also, most people hate shopping for gifts but feel compelled to get their significant other a gift.

Every year millions of roses are sold, along with candy, cards, and other gifts for people’s significant others.

Men wonder what to buy that does not empty their wallet but still says “I love you.”

Women have to decide between their New Year’s resolutions and the chocolate and heart-shaped candy they were given.

Nothing says “I love you” like a man completely ignoring their partner’s goal to lose the Christmas weight by getting them three pounds of chocolate.

What can be done with a cheesy card and a teddy bear that will be on a clearance rack the next day? Garage sales are one option and a garbage can the other.

Ever meet those people who go above and beyond with their Valentine’s Day gifts? They buy the biggest teddy bear with the most expensive card and chocolates.

Society pressures people into believing that when they buy this stuff, it shows they love their partner.

The worst part of Valentine’s Day is not the people who enjoy Valentine’s Day, it is the people who go out of their way to make Valentine’s Day bad.

Sending out invites to an anti-Valentine’s Day party is not standing up against it, but instead giving a reason to have Valentine’s Day. The people at an anti-Valentine’s Day party all understand they would not be there if they had a date instead.

Turning on the radio to find sappy love songs on every station gets old after awhile.

Sitting through a couple of months of Christmas music was agonizing, but just two weeks of mushy love songs can cause uncontrollable tears and inexplicable sadness.

Cupid is the most recognized symbol of Valentine’s Day.

Children’s television portrays cupid as a baby shooting arrows into people so they fall madly in love with another. In reality, Cupid comes from Greek mythology as Eros, the god of love.

The diaper-wearing baby is displayed underneath many Valentine’s Day  signs, but many people think he is more creepy than he is cute.

Children all over the world will be coming home soon with tears in their eyes because so-and-so gave a valentine to everyone else in the class except them. Or maybe they were jealous because someone else gave out the same ninja turtles valentines as them.

Whether because of a proposal, a breakup, or a child’s valentine crisis, it is certain that tears will flow this Valentine’s Day.

At least the chocolate will be half off on Feb. 15.

(If you want to read a column that’s pro Valentine’s Day, read Rebecca Barringer’s.)