The Big Surprise Behind Valentine's Day

  In the article "Historically Incorrect Canoodling" by Stephanie Coontz, she explores the history behind Valentines Day and finds some things that may surprise some people. In the article, Coontz states, "Valentine's Day was originally created by the Roman Catholic Church as a limit on sexual passion." This for sure is not what most people would have thought.
  The article includes quotes from Coontz herself, and quotes from people in that century that shows what most people thought in that time. One quotes that stood out to me from Coontz was when she greed to a point of which the church said saying, " They had a point. High Expectations of married love can lead to huge disappoints," It stood out to me because I think the statement is false. If you have the highest expectations from a marriage that means you are looking to have the best out of your marriage and a person can only want the best.
  I think that Valentine's Day being a day that didn't stand for love before in the earlier centuries is pretty absurd. I mean, people should support people who are in love because they are seemingly happy together. Even if it lasts for only a little while. Love can be a beautiful thing, even if it can turn out ugly in the end. People fall in love and sometimes you can't help it. The church should have supported the marriages if they wanted what was best for the people.
  This article makes me think that the Church maybe didn't want other people to marry because they were not allowed to or they fell in love once and it just didn't work out. If that was the case then why ruin other peoples experience of love? The church may believe that it was the wrong thing but what about the soldiers that wanted to get married? They work for them during the wars they should at least be able to come home to some type of happiness. Some Grown-Ups are even like that today. Maybe they should stop getting into other peoples relationships and let them do their own thing without their control. Marriage shouldn't have been banned, It should have been encouraged. To keep all of their people happy in some sort of way.