When To Send Flowers To Your SO

Shane R. Monroe
3 min readNov 15, 2019

Assuming you send flowers at all, of course.

The flowers I just sent my teacher wife to her school…

I know, flowers are wasteful — they wilt, they die … hardly something to profess undying love, right? But my wife loves them and I love my wife — so she gets them.

I’ve been married a long time; 22 years this last October. If there is one thing I know how to do? It is sending flowers.

Unfortunately, sending flowers has a very negative connotation attached to them. They are used for all the wrong reasons; not when YOU should be sending flowers to your SO (significant other).

The secret to successful flower dispatch isn’t about “when” to send them … it is about “when not” to send them.

There are several factors to consider, but let’s start with the occasions on which not to send flowers.

Apology

Nothing says “I’m sorry” than a bushel of flowers, right?

“Hey babe, please accept this bouquet of once-living-but-soon-dead assortment of baby’s breath and roses as my way of expressing my regrets for <insert the dumbass thing you probably did without thinking it through>

Apologies delivered as flowers are deemed artificial and could come off as a non-admittance of guilt in a…

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Shane R. Monroe
Shane R. Monroe

Written by Shane R. Monroe

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