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I'm SO over Valentine's Day

I'm hoping you are too

If you're a guy in a relationship, celebrating Valentine's Day is not an option -- it's a requirement. Each year you're forced to top the last and if you disappoint it may be your last. If your girl says she doesn't care about the holiday, guess what? She's LYING!

If you're a girl in a relationship, you spend the weeks prior to V-day trying to predict what your man will do to profess his love for you this year. If he goes all out he's the best thing since sliced bread but let him come up short and you'll find yourself reevaluating how much he supposedly cares because if he really loved you he would have pulled some stunt out of 'Hitch,' right?

If you're single -- like myself -- Valentine's Day simply serves as yet another sad and painful reminder of the fact. And like many, you view February 14th as the commercialized and overly hyped production that it truly is. If I sound bitter, you're right. However, all biases aside there are plenty of people who would agree that the so-called annual 'celebration of love' causes more harm than good and you'll be happy to know it isn't just the "single ladies with their hands up," who feel this way.

Seanmichael Rodgers and Damien Ramsey, a couple residing in New York City and engaged to be married this spring, is an example of the love that challenges "traditional" models.

Seanmichael and Damien have been in a committed relationship for three years. Their commitment will ultimately lead them down the aisle in March. Over the past three years, there have been several Valentine's Day memories with each one competing to top the last.

While Seanmichael's plan to celebrate the holiday with his future husband remains a secret, he did reveal that it includes "100 candles, 10 wishes, 10 promises, 10 memories and 10 reasons."

For any 'Real Housewives of Atlanta' fans (and given the show's recent numbers, we know there are many), we know that Ed and Lisa Hartwell are one of the two couples on the show that are actually married. Theirs looks to be a sweet relationship based on love and respect.

In this video from Essence.com, we hear "cougar" Lisa sound off on how the lovebirds met and how they married after only "one month and 23 days" of dating. We also hear from the usually reserved Ed on "being head of his household" and how they are trying for a baby girl these days.

The pairing of beauties and ballers has been around probably since the first cave man hit a rock across a dusty field. You take two stars in their own right and put them in the same circles and, voila, you have a match made in star heaven. What's not to love? They both are established in their fields and they both bring a little something something to the finance table, if you know what I'm saying. Going way back, from Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe to Pam Grier and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the beauty and the baller have been on the world's stage for a minute and show no signs of slowing. Check out a few of our faves and a couple who didn't quite make it across the finish line.