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Many people angst over Valentine’s Day and get overwhelmed by commercial expectations, Love Coach Adriane Hartigan-von Strauch says.“Men get particularly worried about the need to provide an expensive dinner, roses and chocolates and often end up feeling financially depleted,” she says. “But a picnic at a romantic spot might be enough. You’ll also get more intimacy in an environment like that.”Adriane recommends compliments, offering to help one another and home- made gifts.“People respond differently to gestures and it’s about what works for your partner.“Some women are more visual than others and might like a bunch of beautiful flowers. Some prefer to hear they’re loved in the form of a poem. Others respond kinaesthetically and like to be hugged or held.”She says to find the key to a man’s heart think money, sex, chores and adventures.“To make your husband feel good offer him a quickie or help him pick up the grass after he’s mowed the lawns. Design a holiday together and create a common experience.”Adriane says there is no “trick” to Valentine’s Day.“It’s about doing your magic without showing your partner. Just be who you are in your most beautiful form and learn to speak the language of love your partner is able to receive.”

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Mistakes often made include comparing your experience to someone else’s and thinking it’s just about one day.“Build it up over a week. Valentine’s Day often ends up on a weekday and by the time you’re in a restaurant surrounded by nervous people, things can be stressful.”

Love Coach Adriane Hartigan-von Strauch says love is the most powerful life force humans can experience.

The love coach says February 14 is a day to remember that love is the most powerful

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Adriane’s job involves unearthing long-standing belief and behaviour patterns and setting people free from their fears.“People worry about being rejected, abandoned or exploited. They accumulate hurt, pain and losses.”Advice for those on the prowl is to be authentic, trust your gut and express yourself like you’re already in love.“If you’re in love you’ll be attractive to others.”The love coach says being happy in love will determine other areas in your life such as business and physical health.

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While February 14 is that time of year when we are encouraged to make a bigger effort to show our affections to that special person in our lives, experts suggest that relationships are better if romance is practised on a more regular basis.This doesn’t mean lots of expensive gifts and treats, but more the thoughtfulness that says ‘I love you’ all year round.Counsellor Raewyn Stewart says because men and women communicate their affections differently, there is a real skill in understanding each other’s language. “There are lots of ways to keep the fires of love burning, but one of the biggest, is making time for one another in your busy day-to-day schedules,” she says. “Marking ‘date nights’ in your diaries every so often isn’t as silly as it sounds. If you have children, arrange for them to stay at someone else’s place that night or get in a babysitter and go out alone together.”Raewyn says the other important thing to remember is to ensure that you are, in fact, lovable.“Often when people are in a long-term relationship, they let themselves go – physically and in their behaviour.

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They forget to give compliments, kisses and touching becomes less frequent, and the risqué underwear gives way to boxer shorts and sensible bras.”Here’s some love suggestions, whether you are in a relationship of not: y Criticise less, compliment more y Don’t be excessively needy. y Know that other people’s actions are no excuse for your own.

y Solve your own problems. y Find ways to be pleasant even if you aren’t always happy.

y Know how to laugh easily – it is a contagious habit.

Valentines Day should be an opportunity to embellish the love you have, express kindness and emotions to friends and family, and a launch pad to express your feelings for the mate you have or will find for the rest of your lives.