“Well, before, as a single guy in the past, if you were dating someone, it’s that holiday that comes along where you have to really like stamp out on paper exactly where the relationship really stands,” Bentley says. “You don't want to undershoot it 'cause then you'll be in trouble, you know … if you don't give the right present or don't say the right things, you're gonna be in the doghouse. But then if you overstate your hand, then you're moving the relationship way faster than you actually want to.”
Billy Currington’s mother tried to teach him right about the romantic holiday, even as far back as grade school. “I remember my first girlfriend ... I was in first or second grade,” Currington recalls. “I remember [my] mom going, ‘You’ve got to get your girlfriend something and you’ve got to go give it to her.’ I’ll never forget … I got her a box of chocolates or whatever it was, and I remember going down to her classroom and knocking on the door and getting her to come to the door. And I remember I handed it to her, and I took off running!”
Even years into his marriage with Nicole Kidman, Keith Urban tries to keep the newness there by treating every day like it’s Valentine’s Day. “I think a lot of it has to do with just staying present, because you know, when we start relationships, we’re so capable of honoring each other at the beginning off a relationship with cards and flowers and chocolates and attention and affection and priority,” notes Urban. “And then all of that all too many times starts to drift away, and it drifts away because it’s easy at the beginning. It just happens naturally. You’re almost overdoing it sometimes in the beginning.
“I was listening to the radio, [and] they’re talking about when is a relationship too soon to give Valentine’s gifts,” he continues with laughter. “If you’ve been dating a guy six days, and it just started before the 14th…[laughs] and some woman said, ‘I was dating this guy three weeks and it was Valentine’s Day, and he gave me an iPad for Valentine’s Day.’ [laughs] That’s a ridiculous gift for Valentine’s Day! [laughs]”
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