Valentines day cupcakes (What's happened to valentines day?)

What's happened to 'love heart' sweets? 
In order to add a sweet and loving, yet cheeky and fun message to my valentines day cupcakes I went and bought some love heart sweets to decorate valentines cupcakes but upon opening the tube i was confronted by sweet after sweet with a less than affectionate sentiment.


Who wants one that says bye bye, just mates, gee wizz, just say no or good pals? I think being given a sweet that says bye bye or just friends is really harsh.... unless your 9 years old anyway. 


I was lulled into a false sense of security after being given 2 of these sweets by the boyfriend at the weekend as he and his nieces and nephews chomped happily on the mini tubes you can buy, he sweetly asked one of his nieces to pass me the hand picked sweet that said love you and a second that said my all. I thought the tubes must be still filled with sweets professing similar sentiments like when i was a little girl but its not true, in a massive tube only one said 'love you' followed by one that said 'all mine' and apart from 'nice girl' and 'my boy' they were the only ones not disappointingly platonic.


I am well aware that valentines day is a commercial expensive way that people feel pressurised in to showing someone they care when they should do it all year round etc etc etc. Trust me I have heard every excuse going from various boyfriends over the last 20 years as to why its a waste of time and although I agree in part that showing someone you love them all year round is a must, that little gifts dotted throughout the months are lovely, is there really anything wrong with a special day each year being set aside when you get a card that tells you in no uncertain terms that you are loved/fancied/cared for? maybe a nice meal cooked and a time where in our very busy hectic lives we take a few hours to show someone special that despite everything we do really still feel that way. Why is it naff? why is it a waste of money or time or effort?  is it perhaps just laziness? a case i love you, you know that so why bother making a special show of it on the 14th of February? Who knows but i love it and while i am battling against the tide of misery i have still made valentines cupcakes- yes red iced love heart adorning tacky sentimental cakes that can be used as a demonstration to say perhaps what you struggle to say yourself.