Do you and your SO feel the need to celebrate important dates?

Hey all,

Today's my birthday, so I was wondering about this: do you and your SO feel the need to celebrate dates? (e.g. first 'I love you', each others' birthdays, anniversaries...etc). I'm the sort of person that does, because I like excuses to celebrate XD and it lets me think back to happy memories. My SO, on the other hand, can be a little scatterbrained/forgetful sometimes, and holds each day with the same value. I can see both sides of the situation here.

So, do you and your SO celebrate commemorative dates? If so, how do you celebrate them? If not, then why not?

[Brieasaurus]

Haha no way. We barely remember our year anniversaries. Birthdays and holidays are different though, we celebrate those. I like to celebrate too but life just gets so busy sometimes that it's nice to be able to do something big for one event a year than a bunch of little half assed gifts every month, you know? That's just my opinion on it anyways. Sometimes we'll get silly and be like "Happy 23948239384929248 second anniversary!".

[conejita_hada]

We celebrate birthdays but other than that, I don't think we'd really "celebrate" anything in a big way. We do, he more than me, remind each other of "special" dates. Haven't hit the 1st year anniversary yet but for the day that marked 6 months after we met, we both mentioned to each other how it had been a special day. I don't really come from a family that celebrates birthdays or anniversary dates much, it's just for the kids that birthday parties really happen so I'm not expecting much and I think we kind of take our cues from each other.

I would like to figure out a way to see him for the 1st anniversary, only because to me that symbolizes a lot for a romantic relationship. Other anniversaries, not as much. haha I think that's just because my parents don't really celebrate for themselves except they did exchange cards when I was younger.

[Dezface]

Just birthdays and our "official" anniversary. We mention our unofficial one and other small things, but don't actively celebrate them.

[princessmaria]

It kind of depends. If we're together on the important date, then we would celebrate. We planned to celebrate our anniversary on October 11th this year (I was going to fly out there) but after talking it over more we decided it wasn't best. Now we aren't going to celebrate it at all and the day will most likely pass just like any other day. This year I got the chance to celebrate my birthday with him, but if we were not in the same country, it would not have been mentioned much. I think it's depressing to try and celebrate certain holidays or events with someone who is over a thousand miles away. A lot of people can get by on Skype dates and sending cards to one another, but for me, on a special date all that does is remind me that my SO is far away. It's better if we don't celebrate at all. I'm 100% fine with this.

[Hollandia]

We don't really have a set date for an anniversary yet, meeting online and then only being friends when we met in person, when would the date be? We do celebrate birthdays and I think that when the time comes; a wedding anniversary would be special. We celebrate NYE together too. The rest of the holidays don't really mean anything to him, but he knows they all do to me so he makes a point to try to make them special for me.

[rubydissolution]

Birthdays, and anniversaries....that's about it. We did the 6 month celebration which we dubbed our 6 Monthiversary in December last year, but I told him we don't have to celebrate a year and six months. Or any 6 monthiversary again.

[Alsfia]

We missed our one year anniversary with a couple of days, but when he got over shortly after we celebrated by sharing a bottle of bubbly... This year he'll be here on the day and we've been thinking to go on a date then or something, if it's not raining or too cold we'll probably just drive up to town to go to a beach, if it's windy I might bring a kite or something. Other than that we'll probably just take a walk in the forest and look at ruska (autumn colours). We did celebrate the first anniversary of when we met, he cooked a lovely dinner for me We celebrate his birthday, but I always get depressed on mine for some reason so I prefer not to celebrate it too much. Also I'm too lazy We celebrated Christmas together last year and will do so this year, our first Christmas I stayed at his until the 23rd so that kind of counts too. We don't celebrate other holidays that much, except for the Finnish independence day (which is in December so it basically consists of lighting a blue-white candle and watch the unknown soldier) and I introduced Midsummer this year to them all

[snow]

My man doesn't like to celebrate his birthday so much, but we do spend extra couple time for it. Other than that we do celebrate holidays and other days, like our Anniversary. We do mention the monthly ones, but we don't really celebrate them.

[Rugger]

We celebrate our birthdays and our yearly anniversary, normally with presents and going somewhere special to eat. Nothing huge.

[milaya]

Simply put... no.
We don't really celebrate anything. We both acknowledge that "oh today is our marriage anniversary" or something like that. Then we might have more stories about our relationship and our future than usual, but no gifts.
My SO often buys me some jewelry or something for my birthday and Christmas - and I'll maybe write him some sweets messages or something, but overall we're not the present giving kind of couple at all. We're both very unromantic - sometimes I'm even more unromantic than him, since he at least likes to buy me presents.

[lucybelle]

We totally celebrate everything! We have closing distance anniversary, meeting anniversary, moved to CR anniversary, wedding anniversary, birthdays, etc. We don't do presents, but we do like to go out to a really fancy dinner together. Anniversaries are mostly an excuse to dress up, eat somewhere nice and drink a full bottle of wine without feeling like a glutton. So I can't wait for even more anniversaries

[silvermoonfairy3]

My guy surprised me by sending three red roses to my apartment for our it's-been-three-months-since-we-started-talking day, so that kind of set us on a path of 'celebrating' special days by doing something. It's not usually something major.. for our 6 months-since-we-started-talking-versary, we made each other little gifts, and watched one of our all-time favorite movies together over Skype, and made popcorn.

His birthday has happened while we've been together, and I sent him a gift and we spent lottttts of time together on Skype that day, but my birthday and the major holidays haven't happened while we've been together yet. I'm sure we'll figure something out.

[SJ22]

Yes, definitely the bdays, Xmasses and New Years.
Also the anniversaries. Still send a card or something small every month

[ChibiFelicia]

When we're together we would celebrate. For me it's an excuse to dress up and eat at somewhere really nice. For him, he doesn't really care. He does make an effort since he knows i like it. We couldn't be together for our first wedding anniversary (which was 2 months ago) so we're making up for it now since i got here a couple days ago. We tend to have a week or so of celebrating things we missed lol