1. Cost

Fact: Total spending for Valentine’s Day this year is projected to be 18.2 Billion Dollars

Fact: That’s an average of 136.57 dollars per person!

Fact: Consumers are expected to spend a total amount of 4.3 billion dollars on jewelry alone

Conclusion: Valentine’s Day is simply a perverse and twisted holiday in which the idea of love is sprayed across every billboard, and those who do not participate in the overpriced spending, are shunned and shamed as if we life within a cult society.

2. Negative Emotional Effects

Fact: Valentine’s Day is linked to the highest rate of suicides across the nation (Brice 2016)

Fact: Valentine’s Day is also linked to “Broken Heart Syndrome” in which victims feel chest pains which mimic a heart attack (Brice 2016)

Fact: Valentine’s Day leads to an expectation of people to be in love, and when they aren’t, there is feeling of failure

Conclusion: Valentine’s Day implements the idea that love is a necessity and those who do not have it are actually failing. By allowing this mindset to consume our lives, we are letting suicide and depression rates increase monumentally on a national level

3: Valentine’s Day Doesn’t Have The Lovey-Dovey Roots You Think It Does

Fact: Valentine’s day was named after two people (named Valentine) who had no correlation with giving gifts for love

Fact: The holiday was only created in order to honor the two saints after they died

Fact: They died because they were both executed (on the same day different years)

Conclusion: The history behind it really shows no correlation between providing gifts, and honestly has been so warped and twisted that the actual meaning behind it has been forever lost, and many know not of the executions.