St. Day Anti-Valentine

February 14 has already firmly penetrated the brains of young people with its valentines, sweets, and bouquets. But there are also those who have no time for hearts and plush bunnies on this day.

Mourning in hearts

“I’m looking forward to this holiday with horror,” she says with disgust. – Now they will start selling heart balloons at every metro station. And happy little kids with flowers - disgusting!

25-year-old Inna Rubtsova herself celebrated this holiday since school and was never left without a Valentine. But a year ago on this day I was left without my loved one.
“As usual, I was preparing a romantic evening,” says Inna. - Dinner, candles, red dress. We sat there, and he said: “You know, you’re a great woman, but we need to end this…”

It turns out that the boyfriend returned from the New Year holidays, which they spent separately, with a new feeling:
“I didn’t know how to tell you.” I thought that on this day it would be easier for us to part as friends...

They didn't remain friends. Inna hated both the bastard ex and Saint Valentine to boot. Maybe her story is some kind of dark coincidence, an isolated incident? But in reality it turned out that there are many such incidents.

“American colleagues even conducted research and found that almost half of the couples break up on that day or the day before,” says psychologist Natalya Ukolova. – Because the holiday will refresh old feelings for someone. But for someone, on the contrary, this whole atmosphere will be pressed - flowers, hearts, happy couples. And against this background, you yourself realize even more sharply that you are unhappy in your relationship, that you need to break it off, because it would be worse to celebrate with someone you don’t love. And some people actually convince themselves that the holiday will soften the blow.

Messengers of separation

And some give the right of a “control shot” to others on this day. Nowadays intermediaries – special agencies – break up for loved ones. They say goodbye to the customer's passion instead - by text message, phone call, in person or even in a video recording. Former marriage agencies , psychologists, students and even lawyers began to engage in this business. .

“We actually work according to the civil code, we deal with land, but we started this line of work out of interest,” says one of the “razluchnik” agents, Anatoly. - And then it turned out that tears, snot - all this is not easy. Although you can make money here if you want. With us, one order could cost from 500 to 7,000 rubles.

Nevertheless, the lawyers covered up this sincere direction. But they managed to arrange a breakup on Valentine's Day.

“The girl was harassed by her ex-friend and beat her new boyfriends,” says Anatoly. – Well, we asked our friend who practices freestyle wrestling, he brought a couple of guys. They sobered him up with one look.

There is not much pity for the abandoned subject here. But the “homewrecker” agents had worse melodramas in their practice.

“We received orders for this very day,” says the organizer of another agency, Alena Zimina. “Although we almost never take them on.” There was a case: a man asked us to inform his wife about the divorce on that day, because his mistress was giving birth very soon. This is a nightmare!

True, one student boy somehow persuaded us to help him. On his birthday, his “future ex” received an armful of roses with a note: “Thank you for everything.” But instead of the beloved one, the bouquet was delivered by an agency employee. Without really explaining anything, he took the girl to the entertainment center and, between bowling and playing slot machines, explained that the holiday was the last goodbye.


“It was a good thought - such a bright gratitude at parting,” Alena clarifies. “The agent was trained by psychologists, the customer described the girl’s character to us in detail. And our employee was ready to stay with her until the end, because we often become comforters. But she just turned around and left in tears... In general, we are not taking any more orders for this day.

Feast of Lack of Love

On other days, breakup agents also try to act “humanely.” For example, one of the best ways is to make the victim herself the initiator of the breakup.

“We can make it so that she herself sends the customer without regrets,” Alena reveals the secret. – For example, if an agent comes under the guise of a colleague of a loved one and talks about his adultery with his secretary. Or the “lover” himself appears and describes the details of the betrayal.

But with Ivan D. such a case happened without intermediaries. On Valentine's Day, his wife's very real lover called him.
“She just went to celebrate with him under the pretext of work,” says Ivan. “And there they apparently finally decided everything.” That evening he called and said that one of these days he would come pick up her things...

In recent years, this foreign holiday has become a symbol of love and romance in our country. But for all those abandoned, this is a black date of melancholy and betrayal. Especially when for a romantic dinner you are served your own finely chopped heart instead of a toy one.