The Things we do for love

Not too long ago I stumbled across this article about a guy who streaked across a football field firing red roses like Cupid in an attempt to impress his girlfriend. She decided he was a freak and bailed on the relationship. Plus, he got all kinds of criminal charges levied on him.
Honestly, I felt sorry for the guy. He was TRYING to be romantic, but yeah, he did take it to stratospheric heights. It got me wondering how often that happens. I mean, I love those scenes with guys breaking all kinds of rules to propose or women making fools of themselves to claim their loved one right before he marries someone else. But I can see how some people would be embarrassed rather than flattered. I guess you have to know your lovey well to know whether it would work.
Thinking about this I was trying to remember the most, over the top romantic gestures I’ve either lived (actually, the word is survived), or those told to me by friends. I’m a Latina, so I’ve had my fair share of romantic serenades, but truly, the most embarrassing I’ve ever had was a guy yelling at the top of his voice in a bus full of people dressed to go to work that he loved me and he would never leave me (yeah, and that ended like the fairy tale.. NOT!), or the case of one of my friends that at a formal birthday party that included not only her parents but her boss and his wife, her boyfriend made her open his present in front of everyone, only to find out it was a picture frame with a pic of them two in a, how to put it?, very loving pose. Man, I know I’m happy I missed that party!
So I come to the conclusion, after, male and female, that the word ‘romance’ is different for everyone. Some will love asking all my friends those on the screen in the middle of a game proposals, other love the fact that their wives will make them breakfast in bed when they are sick. In my case, even though I am very outgoing, my husband knows that pulling a Cupid stunt like that (in public, at least) would be signing his own death certificate. Good thing he’s not that big of a public-displays-of-emotion-guy. He knows I like the small things, the more “just because” gestures and he gives me those, instead of the grand stuff that to me seem like more for the person who does it than for the one who receives it, so maybe that’s the reason he’s still alive LOL.
I do think that at the end, either if you like it big or small, what’s important that the person you love and you share gestures that signify your love. That’s really what makes your life in common worth while, so don’t forget... love your significant other and show it!