19/02/2026
Story 4:
Fleur - We actually don’t celebrate Valentine’s Day. It’s the day before my birthday and we’ve found it to be more of a hype day for marketing, rather than a day where you truly feel love for someone and want to do something for them.
As a couple we tend to celebrate our love with date mornings, date nights, random acts and gifts of kindness. So instead of it being an expectation, it comes as a surprise from the heart, rather than from what the ads are telling you to do. 😊️
I love celebrating everything. When we feel truly loved, we fully surrender and allow ourselves to fully feel. Love brings up all emotions, so we get to celebrate allowing ourselves to feel all of those. Real love brings real, honest conversations where we get to speak our truth and fully be seen. So we get to celebrate saying what we really want, celebrate feeling worthy enough to do that and also let another see us.
The story of love for me is important. I didn’t allow love for a long time. I pushed it away due to fear of loss and pain. Love for me was scary. It took small steps, building trust over time, finding the worthiness in myself and allowing myself to be fully seen, even the darkest things that lurked over me.
Love always brings up challenges; what you see in yourself, in your partner, your programs and beliefs from your past and your upbringing and so much of that we have to unlearn in order to learn how we want to show up in love, how we want to show up in ourselves, as parents etc.
My story of love is learning about loving myself in whatever season of life that is, with whomever I’m surrounded by and whatever I’m doing.
I have learnt to appreciate love, to appreciate those who love us. To spend time and make the most of those special moments. To allow love to bring me closer to others and allow me to grow. And to also be ok that other people may not love me like I love myself. 😊️
